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Member, Animal Protection Caucus, present
Member, Anti-Bullying Caucus, present
Member, Cancer Caucus, present
Member, Creative Rights Caucus, present
Member, Cuba Democracy Caucus, present
Co-Chair, E-Tech Caucus, present
Member, Everglades Caucus, present
Member, Florida Ports Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Global WIN, present
Co-Chair, Kids Safety Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus, present
Member, LGBT Equality Caucus, present
Member, National Service Congressional Caucus, present
Member, PORTS Caucus, present
Member, Rare Disease Congressional Caucus, present
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Chair, South Florida Democratic Caucus
Former Member, Subcommittee on Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, United States House of Representatives
Vice President, Women's Political Caucus, Gwen Cherry Chapter
Co-Chair, Policy Committee, Senate Democratic Caucus, 2002-2004
Member, Florida Education Facilities Study Committee, 1994
Member, Animal Protection Caucus, present
Member, Anti-Bullying Caucus, present
Member, Cancer Caucus, present
Member, Creative Rights Caucus, present
Member, Cuba Democracy Caucus, present
Co-Chair, E-Tech Caucus, present
Member, Everglades Caucus, present
Member, Florida Ports Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Global WIN, present
Co-Chair, Kids Safety Caucus, present
Co-Chair, Latino-Jewish Congressional Caucus, present
Member, LGBT Equality Caucus, present
Member, National Service Congressional Caucus, present
Member, PORTS Caucus, present
Member, Rare Disease Congressional Caucus, present
Former Member, Budget Committee, United States House of Representatives
Former Member, Legislative Branch Subcommittee, United States House of Representatives
Chair, South Florida Democratic Caucus
Former Member, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, United States House of Representatives
Vice President, Women's Political Caucus, Gwen Cherry Chapter
Co-Chair, Policy Committee, Senate Democratic Caucus, 2002-2004
Member, Florida Education Facilities Study Committee, 1994
Member, Committee on Appropriations
Member, Committee on Oversight and Reform
Member, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies
Chair, Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Member, Subcommittee on National Security
Astrological Sign:
Libra
Favorite Book:
Profiles in Courage
Favorite Musician:
James Taylor, Jimmy Buffett
Favorite Quote:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Favorite TV Shows:
West Wing
Hobbies or Special Talents:
spending time with her kids, leading her Girl Scout troop, scrapbooking, watching movies and eating popcorn
— Pets (include names):
— Publications:
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. Do you support expanding federal funding to support entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare?
- Yes
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support the protection of government officials, including law enforcement officers, from personal liability in civil lawsuits concerning alleged misconduct?
- No
Do you support increasing defense spending?
- Yes
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
3. Do you support providing financial relief to businesses AND/OR corporations negatively impacted by the state of national emergency for COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Yes
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, geo-thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
2. Do you support requiring businesses to provide paid medical leave during public health crises, such as COVID-19?
- Yes
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
1. Should the United States use military force to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a weapon of mass destruction (for example: nuclear, biological, chemical)?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support reducing military intervention in Middle East conflicts?
- Yes
Do you generally support removing barriers to international trade (for example: tariffs, quotas, etc.)?
- Yes
1. Abortions should always be illegal.
- No Answer
2. Abortions should always be legal.
- X
3. Abortions should be legal only within the first trimester of pregnancy.
- No Answer
4. Abortions should be legal when the pregnancy resulted from incest or rape.
- No Answer
5. Abortions should be legal when the life of the woman is endangered.
- No Answer
6. Prohibit the dilation and extraction procedure, also known as "partial-birth" abortion.
- No Answer
7. Prohibit public funding of abortions and of organizations that advocate or perform abortions.
- No Answer
8. Other or expanded principles
- X
1. Agriculture
- No Answer
2. Arts
- No Answer
3. Defense
- No Answer
4. Education
- Greatly Increase
5. Environment
- No Answer
6. Homeland security
- Greatly Increase
7. International aid
- No Answer
8. Law enforcement
- No Answer
9. Medical research
- No Answer
10. National parks
- No Answer
11. Public health services
- Greatly Increase
12. Scientific research
- Greatly Increase
13. Space exploration programs
- No Answer
14. Transportation and highway infrastructure
- Greatly Increase
15. Welfare
- No Answer
16. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Armed Forces personnel training
- No Answer
2. Intelligence operations
- Greatly Increase
3. Military hardware
- No Answer
4. Modernization of weaponry and equipment
- No Answer
5. National missile defense
- No Answer
6. Pay for active duty personnel
- Greatly Increase
7. Programs to improve troop retention rates
- No Answer
8. Research and development of new weapons
- No Answer
9. Troop and equipment readiness
- Greatly Increase
10. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
1. Less than $25,000
- No Answer
2. $25,000-$75,000
- No Answer
3. $75,000-$150,000
- No Answer
4. Over $150,000
- No Answer
5. Other or expanded categories
- No Answer
6. Over $40,000
- No Answer
7. Alcohol taxes
- No Answer
8. Capital gains taxes
- No Answer
9. Cigarette taxes
- No Answer
10. Corporate taxes
- No Answer
11. Gasoline taxes
- No Answer
12. Inheritance taxes
- No Answer
13. Charitable contributions
- No Answer
14. Child tax credit
- No Answer
15. Earned income tax credit
- No Answer
16. Medical expense deduction
- No Answer
17. Mortgage deduction
- No Answer
18. Student loan credit
- No Answer
1. Do you support permanent repeal of the federal estate tax?
- No Answer
2. Do you support eliminating taxes on dividends paid to individual investors?
- No Answer
3. Should a married couple filing jointly pay the same taxes as if they were an unmarried couple filing separately?
- No Answer
4. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support public taxpayer funding for federal candidates who comply with campaign spending limits.
- X
2. Increase the amount individuals are permitted to contribute to federal campaigns.
- No Answer
3. Prohibit Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions to candidates for federal office.
- No Answer
4. Allow unregulated soft money campaign contributions to political parties or committees.
- No Answer
5. Allow ads paid for by soft money that support or attack a candidate for federal office.
- No Answer
6. Allow issue advocacy commercials by corporations, labor unions, and non-profit groups which appear within 60 days of a general election and within 30 days of a primary election.
- No Answer
7. Remove all contribution limits on federal campaigns and parties.
- No Answer
8. Do you support instant run-off voting (IRV)?
- No Answer
9. Should Election Day be a national holiday?
- Yes
10. Should same-sex couples be allowed to form civil unions?
- Yes
11. Should marriage be restricted to a union only between a man and a woman?
- No Answer
12. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
2. Eliminate the use of the death penalty for federal crimes.
- No Answer
3. Impose "truth in sentencing" for violent criminals so they serve full sentences with no chance of parole.
- No Answer
4. Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills and job-placement assistance when released.
- X
5. Support programs to provide prison inmates with drug and alcohol addiction treatment.
- X
6. Reduce prison sentences for those who commit non-violent crimes.
- No Answer
7. Support additional criminal penalties if a fetus is killed in the commission of a federal crime against a pregnant woman.
- No Answer
8. Require that crimes based on gender, sexual orientation, and disability be prosecuted as federal hate crimes.
- X
9. Support programs that provide job training and placement services for at-risk youth.
- X
10. Impose stricter penalties for those convicted of white-collar crimes.
- X
11. Enforcement of civil rights should primarily be the responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
12. Minors accused of a violent crime should be prosecuted as adults.
- No Answer
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support mandatory jail sentences for selling illegal drugs.
- No Answer
2. Expand federally sponsored drug education and drug treatment programs.
- X
3. Decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana.
- No Answer
4. Allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to their patients for medicinal purposes.
- No Answer
5. Increase border security to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
- X
6. Eliminate federal funding for programs associated with the "war on drugs."
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Support national standards for and testing of public school students.
- X
2. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any public school.
- No Answer
3. Allow parents to use vouchers (equal opportunity scholarships) to send their children to any private or religious school.
- No Answer
4. Allow teachers and professionals to receive authorization and funding to establish charter schools.
- No Answer
5. Increase funding for block grants to states to aid in the hiring of additional teachers.
- No Answer
6. Support teacher testing and reward teachers with merit pay.
- No Answer
7. Increase funding for school capital improvements (e.g. buildings, infrastructure, technology).
- X
8. Support granting states limited control over Head Start programs.
- No Answer
9. Support changing the mission of Head Start to emphasize improving the math and reading skills of disadvantaged children.
- No Answer
10. Providing education is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
11. Support affirmative action in public college admissions.
- X
12. Increase funding of programs such as Pell grants and Stafford loans to help students pay for college.
- X
13. Support federal tax incentives to help families save for college.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Increase funding for national job-training programs that re-train displaced workers or teach skills needed in today's job market.
- X
2. Reduce government regulation of the private sector in order to encourage investment and economic expansion.
- No Answer
3. Provide tax credits or grants to businesses that offer child care services to employees.
- X
4. Encourage employers to offer flex-time scheduling, comp-time, and unpaid leave for family emergencies.
- X
5. Eliminate all federal programs designed to reduce unemployment.
- No Answer
6. Increase the federal minimum wage.
- X
7. Support the right of workers to strike without fear of being permanently replaced.
- X
8. Allow workers to sell company stock and to diversify their company retirement funds into other investment options.
- No Answer
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
10. The federal government should consider race and gender in government contracting decisions.
- X
11. The federal government should discontinue affirmative action programs.
- No Answer
12. The federal government should continue affirmative action programs.
- X
13. Include sexual orientation in federal anti-discrimination laws.
- X
1. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
- X
2. Strengthen the regulation and enforcement of the Clean Air Act.
- X
3. Require states to compensate citizens when environmental regulations limit uses of privately-owned land.
- No Answer
4. Relax logging restrictions on federal lands.
- No Answer
5. Relax standards on federal lands to allow increased recreational usage.
- No Answer
6. Support increased development of traditional energy resources (e.g. coal, natural gas, oil).
- No Answer
7. Strengthen emission controls and fuel efficiency standards on all gasoline and diesel-powered engines, including cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles.
- X
8. Support opening a select portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil exploration.
- No Answer
9. Encourage further development and use of alternative fuels to reduce pollution.
- X
10. Support the use of ethanol as an alternative fuel.
- No Answer
11. Allow energy producers to trade pollution credits.
- No Answer
12. Support the U.S. re-entering the Kyoto treaty process to limit global warming.
- X
13. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Renew the ban on the sale or transfer of semi-automatic guns, except those used for hunting.
- X
2. Maintain and strengthen the current level of enforcement of existing federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- X
3. Ease federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
4. Repeal federal restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns.
- No Answer
5. Allow citizens to carry concealed guns.
- No Answer
6. Require manufacturers to provide child-safety locks on guns.
- X
7. Require background checks on gun sales between private citizens at gun shows.
- X
8. Require a license for gun possession.
- No Answer
9. Establish a national database of ballistic "fingerprints" to track guns used in criminal activities.
- No Answer
10. Support legislation that would protect manufacturers, distributors, dealers, and importers of firearms from civil lawsuits by crime victims.
- No Answer
11. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Providing health care is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
2. Implement a universal health care program to guarantee coverage to all Americans regardless of income.
- X
3. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes appeal mechanisms when claims are denied.
- X
4. Support a Patient's Bill of Rights which includes the right to sue when claims are denied.
- No Answer
5. Expand eligibility for tax-free medical savings accounts.
- No Answer
6. Establish limits on the amount of punitive damages awarded in medical malpractice lawsuits.
- No Answer
7. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
- X
8. Support expanding prescription drug coverage under private managed care plans.
- X
9. Offer tax credits to individuals and small businesses to offset the cost of insurance coverage.
- X
10. Support automatic enrollment of children in federal health care programs such as CHIP and Medicaid.
- X
11. Allow 55-65 year-olds to buy into Medicare.
- No Answer
12. Support stem cell research on existing lines of stem cells.
- X
13. Allow laboratories to create new lines of stem cells for additional research.
- X
14. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Decrease the number of legal immigrants allowed into the country.
- No Answer
2. Establish English as the official national language.
- No Answer
3. Increase the number of visas issued for agricultural workers.
- No Answer
4. Relax restrictions barring legal immigrants from using social programs (e.g. public housing, food stamps).
- No Answer
5. Support amnesty for certain illegal immigrants who already reside in the United States.
- No Answer
6. Support the detention of asylum seekers from countries known to sponsor terrorism.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Aid should be granted to countries when extraordinary circumstances cause disaster and threaten civilian lives.
- X
2. Aid should be granted to countries when it is in the security interests of the United States.
- X
3. Aid should be eliminated for any nation with documented human rights abuses.
- No Answer
4. Aid programs should be scaled back and eventually eliminated.
- No Answer
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Should the United States continue to provide leadership in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process?
- Yes
2. Should the United States support the creation of a Palestinian state?
- No Answer
3. Should the United States withdraw its troops from Iraq?
- No Answer
4. Discuss your proposals for the reconstruction of Iraq. What funding sources would you use to implement these proposals? (75 words or less. Please use an attached page if the space below is not adequate.)
- No Answer
5. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
6. Should the United States use diplomatic and economic pressure to encourage North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program?
- Yes
7. Should the United States use military force to destroy the North Korean nuclear weapons program?
- No Answer
8. Should the United States remove the North Korean government from power?
- No Answer
9. Should the United States increase financial support to Afghanistan?
- Yes
10. Should the United States increase military support to Afghanistan?
- Yes
11. Should the United States maintain its financial support of the United Nations?
- Yes
12. Should the United States decrease its financial support of the United Nations?
- No
13. Should the United States commit troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions?
- Yes
14. Should the United States lift the travel ban to Cuba?
- No
15. Should the United States increase its financial support to Colombia to combat "the war on drugs"?
- No Answer
16. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention programs fund distribution of contraceptives?
- Yes
17. Should aid to African nations for AIDS prevention fund abstinence education?
- No Answer
1. Do you support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
- No Answer
2. Do you support the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)?
- No Answer
3. Do you support continued U.S. membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
- No Answer
4. Should a nation's human rights record affect its normal trade relations (most favored nation) status with the United States?
- No Answer
5. Do you support the trade embargo against Cuba?
- Yes
6. Should trade agreements include provisions to address environmental concerns and to protect workers' rights?
- Yes
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Do you support using military tribunals to try suspected terrorists when ordinary civilian courts are deemed inappropriate or impractical?
- No Answer
2. Should the United States adopt stricter rules for student visa applications from nations known to sponsor terrorism?
- No Answer
3. Should the United States grant law enforcement agencies greater discretion to read mail and email, tap phones, and conduct random searches to prevent future terrorist attacks?
- No Answer
4. Should the United States hold foreign states accountable for terrorists who operate in their country?
- No Answer
5. Should the federal government increase funding to states and cities for homeland security?
- Yes
6. Do you support a policy of pre-emptive strikes against countries deemed to be a threat to national security?
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts which they manage themselves.
- No Answer
2. Allow workers to invest a portion of their payroll tax in private accounts managed by private firms contracted by the government.
- No Answer
3. Invest a portion of Social Security assets collectively in stocks and bonds instead of United States Treasury securities.
- No Answer
4. Increase the payroll tax to better finance Social Security in its current form.
- No Answer
5. Lower the annual cost-of-living increases.
- No Answer
6. Raise the retirement age for when individuals are eligible to receive full Social Security benefits.
- No Answer
7. Other of expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Collect taxes on commercial Internet transactions.
- No Answer
2. Continue the moratorium on Internet taxation.
- No Answer
3. Implement regulation of Internet content.
- No Answer
4. Support government mandates to curtail violent and sexual content on television.
- No Answer
5. Support strict penalties for Internet crimes (e.g. hacking, identity theft, worms/viruses).
- No Answer
6. Support legislation to detail how personal information can be collected and used on the Internet.
- No Answer
7. Regulating the Internet is not a responsibility of the federal government.
- No Answer
8. Impose regulations on "spam" emails.
- X
9. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
1. Require welfare recipients to spend at least 40 hours a week in a combination of work and training programs.
- No Answer
2. Increase funding for child care programs.
- X
3. Continue to give states and local governments flexibility in and responsibility for welfare programs through federal block grants.
- No Answer
4. Direct federal poverty aid through religious, community-based, or other non-profit organizations.
- No Answer
5. Abolish all federal welfare programs.
- No Answer
6. Support housing assistance for low-income families.
- No Answer
7. Other or expanded principles
- No Answer
On an attached page, disk, or via email, please explain in a total of 75 words or less, your top two or three priorities if elected. If they require additional funding for implementation, please explain how you would obtain this funding.
- No Answer
1. Do you generally support pro-choice or pro-life legislation?
- Pro-choice
1. In order to balance the budget, do you support an income tax increase on any tax bracket?
- Yes
2. In order to balance the budget, do you support reducing defense spending?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support the regulation of indirect campaign contributions from corporations and unions?
- Yes
1. Do you support federal spending as a means of promoting economic growth?
- Yes
2. Do you support lowering corporate taxes as a means of promoting economic growth?
- No
1. Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?
- Unknown Position
1. Do you support government funding for the development of renewable energy (e.g. solar, wind, thermal)?
- Yes
2. Do you support the federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions?
- Yes
1. Do you generally support gun-control legislation?
- Yes
1. Do you support repealing the 2010 Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")?
- No
1. Do you support the construction of a wall along the Mexican border?
- No
2. Do you support requiring immigrants who are unlawfully present to return to their country of origin before they are eligible for citizenship?
- No
Do you support the legalization of marijuana for recreational purposes?
- Unknown Position
1. Should the United States use military force in order to prevent governments hostile to the U.S. from possessing a nuclear weapon?
- Unknown Position
2. Do you support increased American intervention in Middle Eastern conflicts beyond air support?
- No
Latest Action: 06/21/2019 On agreeing to the Wasserman Schultz amendments (A070) Agreed to by voice vote.
Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Tracker:Latest Action: House - 06/20/2019 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Tracker:By Debbie Wasserman Schultz History tells us that we cannot ignore the insidious cruelty of white supremacist ideology. It grows from whispers to proud proclamations, then is distilled into policy. Ultimately, white supremacy costs innocent lives. It is a threat that lurks just below the surface of modern society and must be exposed at every opportunity. This week, the House and the Senate created such an opportunity by introducing resolutions condemning Stephen Miller and calling for his resignation. This is an important step in recognizing and rejecting Mr. Miller's contributions toward various hateful and exclusionary Trump Administration policies, particularly those targeting vulnerable migrant children. However, these resolutions do not have the force of law. In order to hold Mr. Miller accountable, Congress must hold hearings that would reveal the glaring disparity between those values we embrace as a nation of immigrants and the values that Mr. Miller draws from to advise the President. We know from conversations with constituents in Florida and National Council of Jewish Women advocates across the country that further confirmation of policies rooted in white supremacy and racism would lead the American people to reject Mr. Miller's reprehensible approach and demand he be ejected from his White House position of influence. Our experiences in public service and advocacy are informed by our Jewish faith, and it is from this place that we are most disturbed by Mr. Miller's dangerous and well-documented embrace of white supremacist arguments. Our Jewish ancestors, just like his Jewish ancestors, were targeted by the same "great replacement" theory being weaponized against immigrants and Muslims. Mr. Miller has, for example, spearheaded all iterations of the ban on immigrants coming from primarily Muslim countries, which continues to tear families apart, a theme in many of his policies. Ultimately, whether crowds of young angry men are emboldened by these types of inhumane policy changes to chant "Jews will not replace us" (like we saw in Charlottesville's 2017 Unite the Right rally that lead to Heather Heyer's tragic murder), the answer has to be solidarity within and across our communities. That is why we've worked with our colleagues in Congress and with our partners in faith communities to call for Stephen Miller to leave the White House. Americans from all different faith traditions are dismayed by the betrayal of our values that Mr. Miller's presence in the White House represents, and we are ready to stand together to oppose and roll back the cruel policies he has implemented. We have both seen, firsthand, the toll that Mr. Miller's immigration policies have taken on people who came to our borders seeking asylum, a safe place to raise their children, and hope for a better future--the American dream. We've each spent time at migrant centers, in in a squalid, make-shift migrant refugee camps in Brownsville, Texas and Juarez, Mexico. We've heard the stories of women who are trapped by the "Remain in Mexico" policy, unable to go home because they or their children face intimidation, trafficking or death, and are blocked from entering the United States because Stephen Miller thinks they have not jumped through enough hoops. Let's not forget, thousands of children face long-term health impacts and serious trauma after being separated from their parents when crossing the border. Mr. Miller can also be largely credited with this horror as part of his strategy to deter families from coming to the U.S. House and Senate hearings would be crucial to expose how his ties to white supremacist ideology have influenced his work in the White House. The American people have a right to know if the soul of their nation is being tainted by poisonous views pulled from racist and neo-Nazi propaganda. This person has the ear of the President and has used that privileged position to try to redefine the American dream as something that is for whites only -- inflicting untold damage on vulnerable groups along the way. As Jews, we know what it is like to wait for the world to respond to the atrocities that take away the dignity and humanity of an entire group of people. We will not remain idle as people fleeing persecution are demonized. The real threat to America is Stephen Miller and all those who celebrate white supremacy. He must be stopped. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz represents Florida's 23rd congressional district. Sheila Katzis the CEO of the National Council of Jewish Women, the 125-year-old progressive feminist nonprofit.
On July 25, 2016, Tim Canova, Wasserman Schultz's Democratic primary challenger. said he would file a complaint with the FEC against Wasserman Schultz. Canova argues that leaked DNC emails indicated that Wasserman Schultz had used DNC resources to further her Congressional campaign against Canova. He stated, "The Wikileaks emails indicate that Debbie Wasserman Schultz used DNC resources to assist her reelection campaign in violation of federal law. According to the emails, top DNC officials used party resources to monitor, respond to, and impede my campaign on numerous occasions." Sanders had endorsed Canova in May, whose campaign platform was similar to the presidential candidate's own platform. Tim Canova's primary campaign against Wasserman Schultz In May 2016, then Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had announced his endorsement of Democratic Congressional candidate Tim Canova, a "previously little-known law professor." Canova ran against Wasserman Schultz in the Democratic primary on August 30, 2016, in Florida's 23rd Congressional District. Sanders, since May, had continued to help Canova's campaign along with others from Sanders' former presidential campaign. During the 2015 and early 2016 Democratic primary debates, Sanders had criticized Wasserman Schultz's chosen debate schedule and the DNC's joint fundraising committee for Sanders' primary challenger Hillary Clinton, which created tensions between Sanders and Wasserman Schultz. Those tensions peaked on July 22, 2016, prior to the start of the Democratic National Convention. The website Wikileaks released just over 19,000 leaked DNC emails. The emails, which consisted of correspondence between former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and other DNC officials, revealed, according to The Washington Post, that Wasserman Schultz and the DNC "tried to aid [Hillary] Clinton and hamper [Bernie] Sanders." In response to the emails, Sanders called for Wasserman Schultz's resignation as chair of the DNC. However, since her resignation and Sanders informal withdrawal from the presidential race, the two had been focussed on the Democratic Congressional race in Florida's 23rd Congressional District, in which Sanders and his presidential campaign allies—Tad Devine, who has since withdrawn from the Canova's campaign, and Revolution Messaging—had helped Tim Canova against Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz's office allegedly offered to alter her stance on medical marijuana if lawyer John Morgan, one of medical marijuana's chief supporters, would cease attacking her. Morgan responded to this offer by stating, "No, she is a bully. I beat bullies up for a living." Morgan then said that he forwarded the email exchange to Politico to demonstrate how transactional it was in nature. Following this exchange, Wasserman Schultz denied the claim that she offered to change her position in exchange for a cease-fire. She said, "I wouldn't change my position in exchange for support under any circumstances — ever. I'm always very proud to stand in front of my constituents and explain when I have a difference of opinion with them."
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