Peter For Working Families
A Commitment to Labor's Future

Under the Bush Administration, working families are under assault. Jobs have been lost, millions of Americans live without health insurance, and the federal deficit has skyrocketed. Bush and the Republican leadership have attempted to steal overtime pay and blocked health care reform, while serving up tax breaks to the corporate elite who send American jobs overseas.

Bush and his allies are rolling back rights labor has fought for and that helped create the most prosperous middle class in history.

Peter Deutsch has a record of focusing on the problems of working families, a group which makes up the backbone of both our economy and our country. He is a leader in the fight for fair trade, and has earned a 90% lifetime voting record with the AFL-CIO. Peter has recently received the endorsement of the Florida AFL-CIO.

Peter is a leader in investigating corporate scandals. He was the leading democrat in house investigations of accounting scandals and was ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations during 2001-2002.

Peter has worked tirelessly to protect workers' pensions and has introduced legislation such as the Pensions Protection Act of 2001 in order to restrict employee 401(k) contributions to no more than ten percent in company stock.

When George W. Bush tried to implement regulations in order to gut overtime pay for millions of Americans, Peter Deutsch voted in favor of blocking his attempted elimination. He voted for a motion to instruct House conferees to go along with the Senate during conference negations in order to prevent President Bush from ending overtime pay.

During his time in the U.S. House, Representative Deutsch has worked repeatedly in order to raise minimum wage for working families across America. He voted in favor of the last increase for minimum wage 8 years ago and for a bill to raise minimum wage by $1 an hour over two years in 2000.