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Article: New tough political compassionate woman: Debbie Wasserman Schultz is Florida's first Jewish congresswoman. The self-made politician has risen rapidly through the ranks of the Democratic Party while raising three young children and battling cancer.
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- May 1, 2009
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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 her she was needed in Washington: President George W. Bush and Republican leaders had called Congress into session to block the court-ordered removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube.
As a former state assemblywoman Wasserman Schultz was well-versed in the intricacies of the case that had become an emotional rallying point for the ...