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  By Scott S. Greenberger Ten weeks after taking office as the first Jewish congresswoman from Florida, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was a virtual unknown on the national scene. It was early 2005, and the petite lawmaker, then 38, was attending a children’s birthday party in her southern Florida district when an aide called to tell [...]

(Washington, DC) – This week, in the run up to her Saturday Small Business Workshop, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) praised passage of H.R. 2352, the “Job Creation Through Entrepreneurship Act of 2009, which will drive economic growth by creating new jobs and giving small businesses and entrepreneurs the resources they need to succeed and [...]

(Washington, DC) – Rep. Wasserman Schultz voted today to bring reform and consumer protections to the credit card industry. The Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights passed the House of Representatives with an overwhelming bipartisan majority of 70 – 357, and similarly passed the Senate by 5-90. The bill will now go on to President Obama [...]

By Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Washington, DC)  –   For the last several years, the contributions of American Jews to American history have been recognized in the month of May, better known as Jewish American Heritage Month.  The purpose of Jewish American Heritage Month is to promote understanding of the many contributions American Jews have made [...]