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Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida's 23rd congressional district since 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, she has held various leadership roles, including serving as the chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2011 to 2016. Throughout her tenure, Wasserman Schultz has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and women's rights, advocating for policies that aim to improve the lives of her constituents. She has been an outspoken advocate for gun control and has worked on legislation addressing the needs of veterans and military families.

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Nov 18, 2019

The risk level found by CDC's Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is 11 parts per trillion for PFOA and for PFOS it is seven parts per trillion.

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Nov 18, 2019

It seems to me that we have a national water crisis on our hands here and our service members have been unfairly and cruelly put on the front lines of this chemical crisis.

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Nov 18, 2019

I want everyone present and watching this hearing now to hear this fact.

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Nov 18, 2019

I can assure you that we are going to continue to make sure that we hold these companies' feet to the fire.

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Nov 18, 2019

It seems to me that we have a national water crisis on our hands here and our service members have been unfairly and cruelly put on the front lines of this chemical crisis.

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Nov 18, 2019

I told them, and I will reiterate here, that I don't know how they sleep at night.

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Nov 18, 2019

Your testimony really reminds us all that this is an issue of life and death.

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Nov 13, 2019

We need to be unequivocal about calling these laws out for what they are, sinister attempts to interfere with a woman's right to make her own personal health choices.

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Nov 13, 2019

Watching the rapid expansion of state laws that limit a woman's autonomy to make this personal choice for herself is deeply troubling.

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Nov 13, 2019

The decision to become a parent is one of the most important and most personal life decisions that we make.

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Nov 13, 2019

The passage of the Affordable Care Act and making sure that it remains the law of the land so that women are no longer considered preexisting conditions.

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Nov 13, 2019

No one here today has said that abortion is the only solution to address the maternal mortality rate.

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Oct 29, 2019

What does USCIS recommend families like his do while the agency is trying to decide how to reinstate deferred action?

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Oct 29, 2019

We want to have maximum transparency to ensure that USCIS is not imposing unreasonable requirements on immigrants who deserve our attention and our mercy.

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Oct 29, 2019

Recently, last session, Will Hurd, a very well-respected Republican member, and Pete Aguilar, introduced a very similar bill.

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Oct 29, 2019

We come here not in any kind of 'gotcha' spirit. We just want to deal with a very serious problem.

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Oct 29, 2019

Surely we can live up to the spirit of Lady Liberty and open our arms to immigrant families who just want to make a better for their children.

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Oct 29, 2019

When you announced this rule you were asked whether it was consistent with the poem under the Statue of Liberty, which reads, quote, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'

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Oct 29, 2019

You want to block all immigration and make life harder for immigrants, and you have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs.

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Oct 29, 2019

You have implemented a policy that yanks social services and denies the ability of children legal status to immigrate here if they are going to use social services.

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Oct 29, 2019

My constituents, Americans across the country, are not fooled by this Administration's specious attempts to distinguish between documented and undocumented immigration.

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Oct 22, 2019

When you explore for new oil and gas reserves, you are committing to developing and using those reserves 20, 30, 40, 50, even 100 years into the future, and that belies their claim to be committed to this issue.

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Oct 22, 2019

This seems like a double-down on their old-fashioned playbook of denial and obfuscation to me.

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Oct 22, 2019

Have you noticed that they've taken any significant steps toward addressing the impact of climate change and their effect on climate change in communities of color?

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Oct 22, 2019

However, ExxonMobil's corporate website recently stated, and I quote, 'Current scientific understanding provides limited guidance on the likelihood, magnitude, or timeframe.'

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