Washington, July 25, 2019 After months of inaction from the President, House Democrats stepped into the void and extended life-saving protections to Venezuelans who have fled starvation, violence, and persecution.(Washington D.C.) – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 549, extending Temporary Protected […]
Washington, July 23, 2019 “Congress must be able to exercise its constitutional oversight authority and ensure that all migrants coming here are treated with dignity and humanity.” (Washington D.C.) – Tens of thousands of migrants are detained every day in government-run and for-profit facilities run by contractors. Congress must have unrestricted access to these facilities to […]
Washington, July 23, 2019 “House Republicans sent Venezuelan nationals – our friends and neighbors – a cruel message that they are inexplicably indifferent to the crisis taking place in Venezuela.” (Washington D.C.) – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) issued the following statement after House Republicans voted overwhelmingly against the Venezuela TPS Act of 2019: […]
Washington, July 10, 2019 “I’ve been insistent that he publicly answer for these troubling actions, and I am heartened that Chairmen Cummings and Raskin have called for this public accounting.” Washington D.C. – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) issued the following statement after Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight […]
Washington, July 8, 2019 “As Epstein now faces a real accounting for his crimes, it’s time for Acosta to be held responsible for letting Epstein elude real justice for so long.”Today Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) issued the following statement: The new sex trafficking charges announced today make it agonizingly clear that former U.S. Attorney […]
Washington, July 4, 2019 “I will continue to fight his every attempt to steal resources from our military and their families to build this ineffective and narcissistic monument to nativism.” (Sunrise, Fla.) – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) released this statement after an appeals court late yesterday upheld a lower court ruling that blocked […]
Washington, June 27, 2019 “This decision confirms the Trump administration has been flagrantly deceitful in their public justifications for adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census in 2020.”Today Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in Department of Commerce v. New York:“This decision confirms the Trump administration has been flagrantly […]
Washington, June 25, 2019 “Until there is some measure of real accountability secured for Mr. Khashoggi’s murder, this controversial Saudi air marshal assistance program should remain shut down.” A controversial air marshal program that provides training assistance for Saudi Arabia is no longer operational in the wake of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, according to testimony […]
Washington, June 25, 2019 “Florida’s ecological diversity and economy must never be put at risk by dirty, dangerous drilling activities.” Today the House of Representatives passed a five-bill appropriations package that includes an amendment authored by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) that would ban drilling off Florida’s sensitive and vital coastlines. The effort was […]
Washington, June 21, 2019 “This will help safeguard Florida’s natural treasures, and ensures our marine populations and tourist economies don’t live under an imminent threat of an oily crude washing up on our shores.” The House of Representatives passed an amendment on Thursday authored by U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) that would ban drilling […]