Today, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) sent a bicameral letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, signed by 52 of their House and Senate colleagues, questioning the Trump Administration’s decision to eliminate the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) website, www.Guideline.gov. For the past 20 years, the NGC database has provided evidence-based best practices for treating common medical conditions to clinicians and patients at no cost....
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Wasserman Schultz Lauds Critical Omnibus Act Funding and Rejection of Trump Budget (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Rep. Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) was pleased that critical national and South Florida investments are contained in the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2018, and in voting for it, she applauded the Democratss’ effort to defeat of numerous attacks on environmental, worker and women’s health rights that Republicans sought to include in the $1.3 trillion spending plan. “This Omnibus is far from p...
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"I know that early detection saves lives and if you cut out a decade between when women are 40 and 50 years and they don’t begin screening starting at 40 then you know that we’re going to lose thousands and thousands more women than we would if they had access to that screening beginning at 40," the congresswoman said.
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This district court ruling shows the grotesque lengths to which Republicans will go to harm people with pre-existing conditions and corrode every American’s abi...
As we honor and remember the lives of the 26 souls murdered at Sandy Hook six years ago, we must recommit ourselves to ending the epidemic of gun violence in th...
The process for handling sexual harassment cases in Congress too often protects the perpetrators while leaving the victims exposed. I'm thrilled that this new p...
Preventing these children from reuniting with their families is absolutely unconscionable. That's why I've introduced legislation to prevent ICE from asking the...
Service members and their families sacrifice so much for our nation. Today I teamed up with the American Red Cross to send holiday greetings and express my grat...
