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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Continues to Rise in Congress After DNC Flop

February 7, 2017 - 8:00am
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

While she’s no longer in charge of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, D-Fla., continues to move up her party’s ranks in Congress. 

Wasserman Schultz took over the DNC in 2011 and helped then President Barack Obama win a second term in 2012. But Democrats suffered some major losses in 2014 and, after Wikileaks released emails indicating Wasserman Schultz and the DNC helped ensure former U.S. Sec. of State Hillary Clinton would defeat U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., for the party’s presidential nomination, she resigned that post back in July. Sanders backed law professor Tim Canova against Wasserman Schultz in a congressional primary at the end of August but she took 57 percent to win renomination and went on to beat Republican Joe Kauffman in November. 

Even with those setbacks, Wasserman Schultz, already part of the Democratic congressional leadership as chief deputy whip, continues to move up the ladder on her side of the aisle. 

Wasserman Schultz announced on Monday that she had been named to the U.S. House Budget Committee. She said she intended to use her new assignment to defend Obama’s health-care law. 

“With a seat on the House Committee on the Budget, I will use my voice and my vote to confront Republicans and the new administration on their vengeful quest to take health care away from millions of newly insured Americans,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Repealing the Affordable Care Act without replacement will result in higher health care premiums and massive medical industry job losses. Our nation’s budget isn’t just a spending blueprint; it’s a detailed statement of our nation’s values, and protecting America’s working families is a value I will vigorously defend.”

That’s not Wasserman Schultz’s only new assignment. From her perch on the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, Wasserman Schultz will lead Democrats on the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee. She is also joining the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. 

“The Military Construction, Veterans Affairs Appropriations subcommittee is the only committee in the Congress that serves those who serve our country in both service and retirement,” Wasserman Schultz said. “This new Military Construction and Veterans Affairs assignment will provide an excellent opportunity for me to do even more to improve the lives of veterans and their families throughout Florida and across the country. I look forward to helping shape the Military Construction-VA bill, which is an absolutely critical piece of legislation in Congress to improve our veterans’ lives as well as steering the construction of our nation's military infrastructure around the world.  

“As a member of the Appropriations’ Energy and Water Subcommittee, I will be able to aggressively confront the funding challenges we face in our effort to restore the Everglades,” she continued. “Previously, on both veterans and Everglades’ issues, I have often been fortunate to find common ground with my Republican colleagues. My goal in this Congress will be to build on that bipartisan success. “

Now 50, Wasserman Schultz is a veteran of Florida politics. She started as an aide to then state Rep. Peter Deutch in 1988 and won his seat in the Florida House in 1992 when he was elected to Congress. After facing term limits in 2000 after eight years in the House, Wasserman Schultz was elected to the Florida Senate where she served four years before replace Deutch in Congress. 


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No its not enough said She is a criminal crook Typical representative of the whole DNC Absolute disgrace She shouldn't be allowed to approach politics after all the scum she is responsible for. DNC gang is a joke

DWS cost the Democrats the House, Senate and Presidency ... and you consider her a rising star? Witness the demise of the Democratic Party. ....

When are you Democrats going to get the message. Your entitlement philosophy is what crushed you. Obama and his radical policies cost the Dems over 1000+ elected positions in the USA. You have a tired old bunch of out of step politicians leading your party and in 2 years you will lose more Senators, which will confirm my message. Americans don't want the govt to make their decisions. TRUMP WILL MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN AND RETIRE"POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ". GOD BLESS AMERICA

God Bless America while you wear that MAGA hat made in China eh? Maybe you can find one of his dusty made in Mexico suits at a second hand store to go with your hat.. chap..

Obama abandoning his base in favor of neoliberal discipline is what cost the Democrats all of the cards. Republican vote totals have not increased over the past decade. Democrat vote totals have collapsed.

This statement is wrong. Hillary caused the Democrats to lose all branches of Gov't in 2016. In case you didn't know, Obama wasn't running anything. Democrats had zero options at the ballot box. There is already a corporate war party, called the Republicans. So the Democrats behave just like Republicans and then wonder why they lost all branches? The lying train wreck of Hillary caused this. Anyone else would have saved the earth, yet now we are facing the eradication of the EPA. Thank you Hillary.

Obama was a right-wing scumbag, just like you. That's why the Dems are losing--people are starting to realize that we have a one-party system in the US--one party with 2 right wings.

Yup one party now and Third Way politics is the reason we are in such a mess in the first place. Just like a seesaw, if one sits in the middle, one side stays down and the other never rises.

Trump's going to bury this country in more debt, and get rich off Russian kickbacks. America is fucked, and that idiotic American Dream and American Exceptionalism you've been sold on, continues to poison the well. Cry political correctness all you want, you've sold out the country to Russia and billionaires. Solid plan there, brain trust.

Pure slime from the invertebrates on the left...

How are you liking the west wing and cabinet packed with people who paid Hillary Clinton $600K+ to speechify? Do you feel like a Trump Chump yet?

Debbie is squarely to blame for Trump winning. If she didn't rig the primary in Hillary's favor, Bernie would be president right now. People wonder why Dems are leaving the party, because of career politicians like Debbie that believe they are above the law and serve themselves and not the people.

Agreed, you are on point, sane liberals are getting scared off by thr facist anti-facists, its depressing at best.

Trump is president because Sanders believes in socialism, not what U.S. is about, and Killary is the worst kind of criminal. Geez!

Deomcratic socialism is a very different ideology than the socialism you condemn. That said, Sanders beat Trump by landslides in every poll -- there is no question that it would be our reality should the Nomination not had been stolen. DWS, Brazile, Kaine and co-horts colluded and were exposed, then violated policy by not disqualifying HRC -- they have admitted defrauding voters in a dismissal filed in our Class Action lawsuit. Brazile should have been run outta DC years ago after her scandal with the Dukakis campaign. Sanders is fighting harder than anyone else in DC right now -- even Warren is a push-over for Trump's appointments and Feinstein is his biggest Dem supporter.

socialism will win in the US soon enough.

Debbie is just part of the problem. Democrats wake up. Your party tells you a lot of Bull ,doors not do anything for you and steals the money. Clinton’s were broke when they came out of the Whitehouse, her words, and bought a $6,000,000 House in NY. Plus Bills pad in the NYC , PLUS WDC private residence on a government salary . You should audit DWS net worth on a congressional salary. Bet she is a multi millionaire on a salary less than $200,000.. You chumps better wake up because I'll bet you are not doing as well They will keep hyping you up so you don't have time to realize your not getting your fair share

This is the same across both parties of our government. There is no party distinction when it comes to corruption.

Oh, we are waking up. However, the other side is no better, sorry. They are ALL playing GI Joe with our kids, and monopoly with our money.

Debbie Debbie Debbie!Do you think we forgot about your stupid attempt to conceal your secret phone calls to Chuck Toad at MSNBC to rig the Primary.Plus having your lil gavel taken away and booed off the stage at the Convention?Tulsi showed guts when she quit the DNC because of your corruption.When there's open primaries You and yours are toast.Trumps full of himself and the only reason he's there is because you cheated Bernie.You and Kaine and HRC are the three little monkeys that brought the party to their knees.

Of course I don't believe Sanders would have beaten Trump, but nevertheless I'm happy that Schultz helped topple her IDOL Hillary Clinton.

This is a ridiculous article. Are you printing DWS press releases and calling them news?

How the hell does this criminal still have a gd job? Only in the corroded America. The land of the corrupt and incited/paid hysterics. ...Not for long.

She is a disgrace!

I agree this woman is disgrace!

I hope she keeps moving up in the Democratic party. SHE has shown her true colors She helped Hillary get defeated She's shown first hand how dishonest and Rigged the party is. As long as they keep people of her caliper moving up the demise of the liberal Dems are assured

So many lies about the people needing the government to take care of them! America doesn't need a nanny state! #smashthestate

So what you are saying, CJ, is that America should turn its back on veterans who fought to keep our country fee, veterans with battle injuries that require extensive medical treatment that would otherwise bankrupt these families, that is if they are able to survive at all................You suggest America should turn its back on millions of people born, obviously through no fault of their own, with medical conditions but unable to afford treatment under the old corporate insurance scheme that denied coverage to patient with preexisting conditions..............So instead of a "nanny state" you promote the ideas that only those with money are entitled to live.............I'll bet you also believe the US was created on Christian principles. But that would be a bit hypocritical, don't you think?

Diane, I think you may be confusing Republicans' opposition to welfare entitlements with a whole-sale rejection of well established executive branch agencies. Few Republicans would argue the Department of Veterans Affairs should be dissolved--unless they argued it should be replaced with a more efficient agency, specifically because mainstream Republicans support veterans. The same goes for the example of children with disabilities you cited. Your rhetorical device about Christianity doesn't seem to appreciate the difference between the compassionate role religion in general, and Christianity in particular, played in America for 200 years and the secular social service industry that blossomed in the late nineteenth century. To your chagrin, liberally minded groups AND Christians have led the way in pushing for more support for children with disabilities. Simply because one thinks government is the best instrument to increase access to care and the other thinks private and non-profit industries work best does not necessarily make the one morally superior to the other.

Couldn't we have a better congressman instead of her take care of our veterans? Could we get an administration that doesn't send thousands of them to their deaths for completely useless wars?

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