JERUSALEM – Earlier today, President Barack Obama gave a speech to the Israeli people at the Jerusalem Convention Center. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), who is traveling with the President in Israel, released the following statement: “As the President stated unequivocally in his speech to the people of Israel today, ‘Israel is not going […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) released the following statement after the Senate rejected the Ryan-Republican budget by a vote of 40 to 59: “Rep. Ryan likes to say that we should budget like American families do. If that’s the case, then enacting the Ryan budget would have been like sending money to […]
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) traveled with President Obama to Israel Tuesday night. “It is an honor to be in Israel with President Obama for the first foreign trip of his second term as he visits Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan,” said Rep. Wasserman Schultz. “This trip is an important opportunity […]
Rep. Wasserman Schultz helped secure funding for the major milestone in Everglades EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. – Earlier today, officials in South Florida celebrated the grand opening of the one-mile Tamiami Trail bridge. This milestone Everglades restoration effort is the largest construction project in the history of the National Park Service. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman […]
Rep. Wasserman Schultz hosts panel discussion on breast cancer report WASHINGTON – Breast cancer is a disease that knows no boundaries. It strikes women from all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities, the rich and the poor, the old and the young. A recent health care study has found that more young women between the ages of […]
WASHINGTON – Today marks the 101st birthday for the Girl Scouts of America. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) made the following statement: “Today, across the country and around the world, we celebrate the Girl Scouts’ birthday in honor of the day in 1912 that Juliette Gordon Low incorporated the first troop of 18 young […]
WESTON, Fla. – Earlier today, the Department of Labor announced that the economy added 236,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent, the lowest level in four years. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) released the following statement: “Today’s jobs report is encouraging news for our economy. We now have the […]
WESTON, Fla. – In recognition of International Women’s Day, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) made the following statement: “Today, on International Women’s Day, we recommit ourselves to the rights of women and girls in the U.S. and around the world. Throughout Women’s History Month, we reaffirm that women’s rights are human rights, and that […]
WESTON, Fla. – The beginning of March marks the beginning of federal sequestration cuts. The sequester is a series of automatic, across-the-board cuts to government agencies, totaling $1.2 trillion over 10 years. The cuts would be split 50-50 between defense and domestic discretionary spending, but excludes Social Security and Medicare. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz […]
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) by a vote of 286-138, extending the law’s crucial protections to LGBT, Native American and immigrant victims, providing for more rape kits as well as a national registry of forensic evidence from sexual assault cases, strengthening […]