Ted Deutch

Although the new lines put his home near Boca Raton just inside the borders of the 21st, members of Congress are required only to live in the state they wish to represent.

In a statement, Deutch stressed his longstanding ties to Broward County, which accounted for 80% of the reconfigured district.

He had represented much of the Broward County portion of the district for a decade at the federal and state levels.

The Sun Sentinel also noted that staying in a Broward-based district would increase Deutch's statewide and national profile by allowing him to advertise on Miami/Fort Lauderdale television.

Most of Deutch's territory became the 22nd district, and was pushed further into Broward County.

In the process, it absorbed the portion of Broward County that had previously been in the neighboring 22nd district represented by Lois Frankel, which had been renumbered as the 21st.

This came after the state supreme court suggested it was better to have only one district splitting the two counties.

After the new lines were announced, Deutch announced he would run in the new 22nd.

Theodore Eliot Deutch (born May 7, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative from Florida's 22nd congressional district from 2010 to 2022.

He served as the Florida state senator from the 30th district from 2006 to 2010.

On February 28, 2022, Deutch announced he would not seek reelection in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections, instead taking a job as chief executive officer of the American Jewish Committee by October 1, 2022.

On September 30, 2022, Deutch resigned from the House.

Deutch was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of Jean (née Mindlin) and the late Bernard Deutch.

He is Jewish.

His grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Belarus and Russia.

A graduate of Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Deutch graduated from the University of Michigan, where he served as editor-in-chief of Consider magazine and was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

He received his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

As a member of the National Young Leadership Cabinet of United Jewish Communities, Deutch organized over 2,500 people to march on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress on a slate of issues affecting children and the elderly.

At the end of his tenure in the state senate, Deutch served as vice chair of the Committee on Regulated Industries and the Policy and Steering Subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee.

In late 2009, Deutch declared his candidacy in a special election to fill the 19th congressional district seat formerly held by Robert Wexler, who left Congress to lead the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation.

His district, numbered as the 19th district from 2010 to 2013 and as the 21st from 2013 to 2017, included much of northern Broward County and southern Palm Beach County in South Florida.

A member of the Democratic Party, he first entered Congress in 2010 after a special election following the resignation of Robert Wexler.

He won the Democratic primary with 85% of the vote, and on April 13, 2010, won the special election, defeating Republican Edward J. Lynch.

Deutch defeated Republican nominee Joe Budd and write-in candidate Stan Smilan.

Deutch was sworn in as a member of the United States House of Representatives on April 15, 2010.

In the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, Deutch spoke out in favor of expanded gun control legislation.

Stoneman Douglas is in his district.

He spoke at a CNN town hall meeting and urged action.

"A lot of people have told this community—people from all around the world—that it's too soon," he said.

"It's too soon to get together to have this kind of forum. It's too soon to talk about preventing another tragedy like the one that struck our community from happening anywhere again. It's too soon to talk about getting weapons of war out of our communities. It is not too soon. It is too late for the 17 lives that were lost."

Shortly after his election, Deutch introduced the Preserving our Promise to Seniors Act, which aims to keep Social Security benefits in line with retirees' costs and gradually raises the cap on FICA taxes over a period of seven years.

During the 2011 debate on the debt ceiling, Deutch assembled and brought to the House floor an elaborate, game-show-style wheel to illustrate which government services he claimed would be endangered by a default on the national debt.

On November 19, 2011, Deutch introduced a resolution proposing "an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the authority of Congress and the states to regulate corporations and to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures".

Deutch's amendment is a blend of "ideas from "Move to Amend, Free Speech for People, Public Citizen, People For the American Way, Common Cause, and the Center for Media and Democracy".

After Florida underwent redistricting in 2012, Deutch's district was renumbered as the 21st district.

Deutch won the November 6 general election with no major-party opposition.

In the general election, against write-in opposition, Deutch won with 99.6% of the vote.

In December 2015, Florida underwent redistricting due to a Supreme Court ruling.

Deutch defeated Republican Nicolas Kimaz in the November 8, 2018, general election, 62% to 38%

Deutch chaired the House Ethics Committee from 2019 until his resignation, a position in which he succeeded Susan Brooks.