Parents Magazine: Protecting the Planet from Pollution for Our Childrens Future

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As the mother of three children, there is nothing more important to me than ensuring that we leave the next generation a world that is safe and prosperous. Making sure that our children have clean air to breathe is an essential part of that mission. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency took an important step in the right direction. Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the EPA released new guidelines that will, for the first time ever, limit carbon emissions from existing factories.

Sun Sentinel: Opinion: South Florida 100

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With all the joy that comes with summertime -- vacation, time to relax, trips to the beach -- we South Floridians know that tragic stories of childhood drownings and near drownings will also be part of our summer. Parents, kids, babysitters, lifeguards, safety advocates and government agencies must continue to be partners in the mutual effort to end these preventable deaths and accidents.

Politico: House panel backs school lunch waivers

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And Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) warned that proponents were ignoring the larger health crisis facing the nation. "The language in the underlying bill is masking the fact that there are many, many school district leaders who seem to not care about what we put in our children's bodies," Wasserman Schultz said. "And that is something that we all have to come to grips with in facing the reality that we do have a massively obese country."

Miami Herald: Five Miami business owners to be given Small Business Person of the Year Awards

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Five local business owners will be be given SBA South Florida District and State of Florida Small Business Person of the Year awards on Saturday, during a Small Business Workshop hosted by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the Broward County Convention Center. Honorees include Ricky Brantley, president of Viking Defense in Miami; Patricia Bonilla, president of Luncacon Construction Group in Miami, Elizabeth Karwowski, president of Get Credit Healthy, in Miami; and Daniel Bittner and Maxim Weitzman, owners of Concept II Cosmetics in Miami.

AP via Miami Herald: South Florida officials urge hurricane planning

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U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she's confident that South Florida's emergency managers are prepared to help the region cope with any hurricane that might strike this year. Officials from the National Hurricane Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Florida National Guard and Broward and Miami-Dade counties briefed the Democratic congresswoman Tuesday on their hurricane preparedness.

Christian Science Monitor: Children of rape: What help for mothers raising these youngsters?

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That way, they say, rape survivors are on equal footing with people who want to terminate someone's rights because of drug abuse, child abuse, or for other reasons, rather than having to meet a more stringent burden of proof required in criminal cases of rape, which often are not prosecuted successfully. On the federal level, US Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) of Florida introduced HR 2772, the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act, in 2013. It would increase sexual-violence-prevention funding to states with such laws. Currently 24 states, including California, have them.

Roll Call: Wasserman Schultz Savors Clean Living and Cooking

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Wasserman Schultz has been documenting her burgeoning passion for the culinary arts via social media for nearly a month now. And she's not embarrassed to admit it's all still very new to her. "I'm really a total novice. I was someone who could barely boil water," she said of the frightfully limited experience she had in the kitchen. To wit, she noted that heating water once proved almost insurmountable.