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Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz weighed in Friday with a statement saying, "This isn't about one person and the change in leadership at the VA must be accompanied by the added resources needed to provide our veterans the care they deserve, particularly in the area of mental health." Read more »

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." Read more »

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. Read more »

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. Read more »

Wasserman Schultz said that cap and trade legislation "was originally a Republican idea." Democrats did support cap and trade legislations at different points along the way. But we found a strong tradition of support from Republican presidents for cap and trade, which uses markets to try to reduce pollution. We rate this claim Mostly True. Read more »

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. Read more »

Andrew is a veteran U.S. Marine sergeant who's served two tours of duty in Afghanistan. He's also picked up some powerful backers in Washington with lawmakers like Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Senator Marco Rubio. Read more »

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. Read more »

Attending the meeting were Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio, Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Weston and Lois Frankel of West Palm Beach, port officials and Army Corps leader Jo-Ellen Darcy. According to the members, the Army Corps agreed to make every effort to finish its feasibility study by January, which could clear the project for construction. Read more »

The state's 15 deep-water ports, members of Congress from both parties and environmental groups banded together to lobby for the Florida projects, taking advantage of the first federal water-projects bill in more than seven years. "Sometimes bipartisanship does prevail in Washington," Wasserman Schultz said. Read more »