By Jose de WitSouth Florida Sun Sentinel If you thought college students don’t care about politics anymore, an hour in a crowded conference room at Florida Atlantic University’s Davie campus Thursday might have changed your mind. A roomful of students grilled U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, when she came to campus to speak about […]
(Washington, DC) — Today, the PROTECT Our Children Act, authored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) passed the U.S. House of Representatives. PROTECT (H.R. 3845) was introduced in October in the House of Representatives to build a strong nationwide network of highly trained law enforcement experts to track down these offenders and put them away. […]
By William E. GibsonSun-Sentinel WASHINGTON – Alarmed by child exploitation via the Internet, the House is expected to overwhelmingly pass a billion-dollar bill today to dramatically expand investigations of computer-generated pornography. South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the bill’s sponsor and the mother of three young children, said more than half a million people […]
(Washington, DC) — Today, President Bush vetoed the Water Resources Development Act (H.R. 1495), bipartisan legislation which was approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate by an overwhelming majority. The legislation authorizes approximately $23 billion for more than 800 projects in communities throughout the country, including Everglades restoration, repairing hurricane damage, restoring wetlands […]