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The lawmakers are urging the Florida governor to issue the shelter-in-place order to protect those most vulnerable to the virus and for the support and protection of the health care system. Read more »

“He is causing more sickness and death without taking a leadership role that ensures that all non-essential businesses are closed around the state, that all beaches are closed around the state,” Wasserman Schultz said Read more »

In order to hold Mr. Miller accountable, Congress must hold hearings that would reveal the glaring disparity between those values we embrace as a nation of immigrants and the values that Mr. Miller draws from to advise the President. Read more »

Proposed new federal penalties for prosecutors, coupled with new powers for judges, are designed to prevent a repeat of Jeffrey Epstein’s secret plea deal. Read more »

"This is theft by the president of the United States that will gravely damage the readiness and quality of life of our service members. We need Republicans to join us to say, ‘enough is enough’ so we can prohibit this in the next appropriations act." Read more »

“Cancer rates dropped before you took office,” Wasserman Schultz said on Twitter in response to the president’s claim. “Hopefully they keep dropping because Congress rejected your cruel research budgets, which sought billions in CUTS to @NIH and the National Cancer Institute. This is good news despite you — not because of you.” Read more »

Put simply, President Trump is corrupt and unfit for his office. Therefore, I will vote to impeach this president, both for abusing his power, and his flagrant obstruction of Congress. Read more »

Until the Ukraine scandal exploded, the protection of federal whistleblowers was important to Republicans and Democrats alike. That old bipartisan commitment was on display during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a Veterans Affairs internal watchdog report. The inspector general found an office meant to protect whistleblowers inflicted injury instead. Read more »

Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., a member of the House Oversight Committee who was present for the deposition, told NBC News that Vindman was a “very credible” witness and said his testimony "corroborated the testimony of other witnesses" that "really drew a direct line to the President, and those around him and their interest in withholding foreign aid through Ukraine that was vital, as well as insisting on investigations into Biden." Read more »

We owe it to our communities, families and future generations to confront the climate crisis head-on. That starts with getting to the root of the problem and holding ExxonMobil and other fossil-fuel companies accountable for the damage they knowingly caused. Read more »