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By Anthony ManYou might be able to say U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, is bringing home the Biden to her district.The White House announced Wednesday that Vice President Joe Biden would deliver the commencement address at Cypress Bay High School in Weston on June 4.It's one of only three commencement addresses Biden will make this spring. The others are at the U.S.… Read more »

February 22, 2012By Rep. Debbie Wasserman SchultzLast week a debate on contraception gripped the nation in a way we have not seen in decades.This debate on whether contraception should be part of a woman's health insurance plan is alarming, because 99 percent of women in this country have used contraception at some point in their lives.The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls… Read more »

By Rep. Debbie Wasserman SchultzLast week a debate on contraception gripped the nation in a way we have not seen in decades.This debate on whether contraception should be part of a woman's health insurance plan is alarming, because 99 percent of women in this country have used contraception at some point in their lives.The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls contraception one of… Read more »

By Donna Gehrke-WhiteReports of identification theft have recently jumped nearly 50 percent nationwide as the federal tax season gets underway, a Federal Trade Commission representative reported Friday after meeting with U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and local law enforcement officials in Fort Lauderdale."We are seeing a huge uptick," said FTC's Southeast Regional… Read more »

The Florida Conservation Alliance and the national League of Conservation Voters have released their 2011 National Environmental Scorecard for Congress. And it’s probably not surprising that the Central Florida delegation — which includes some of the most liberal and most conservative members of the Florida delegation — had widely varying scores.The groups called the… Read more »

Wasserman Schultz Brings In Local Lt. To Watch State Of The Union(CBSMiami) – The State of the Union will be President Barack Obama’s chance to shine, but Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will have a special guest of her own to listen to the president’s speech.The South Florida congresswoman invited 2nd Lt. Brittany Ramos to watch the State of the Union. Lt. Ramos… Read more »

(CBSMiami) – Flanked by her best friend, South Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Representative Gabrielle Giffords left Congress Wednesday morning just more than a year after she was shot in the head during a campaign rally in her home state of Arizona.Giffords’ recovery has been nothing short of miraculous and she continued to serve her district with the help of… Read more »

By Brittany Wallman Decades after it was first envisioned, ground was broken Monday on a new $791 million runway atHollywood International Airport.It was a day some thought would never come, and some hoped wouldn't."There's probably no project that's been talked about more," Broward Mayor John Rodstrom told a thick crowd next to the runway site Monday.Though it… Read more »

By Diana GonzalezMarjorie Evans is the CEO of Broward Children’s Center, which provides care for kids with special needs. They were a source of motivation when Marjorie was diagnosed with cervical cancer three years ago.“It came to light through a Pap smear. I had, I was in the bathroom. I noticed some blood and I called my doctor and I said something’s wrong,said… Read more »

By LIZETTE ALVAREZMIAMI — To live in South Florida is to make peace with flying cockroach behemoths, brigades of lizards that dart across walls (bedroom and otherwise) and frogs the size of cannonballs that loiter on driveways.But even in a state as hospitable as this one to scaly, slithering creatures, enough is enough. Florida has the highest number of nonnative amphibians and… Read more »