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DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz today released the following statement recognizing December 1 as World AIDS Day.

Following tonight’s vote in Mississippi on Amendment 26, the so-called “Personhood” Amendment, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement.

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on Andrea Mitchell’s announcement that she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

"Since Medicare was signed into law in 1965, generations of American seniors have enjoyed the iron-clad guarantee of quality health care. As a result, Americans across the country have been able to live out their retirement in better health and with greater dignity."

"On this anniversary of the implementation of Medicare, I as a Representative of tens of thousands of Florida seniors and the Democratic Party reaffirm our commitment to protecting Medicare and guaranteeing that this program marks many more successful years."

"Today's decision by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the Affordable Care Act is a victory for all Americans – from seniors who are able to obtain free preventive care to young people who are able to stay on their parents’ insurance longer. "

"The Republican plan for balancing the budget on the backs of America’s elderly, poor, and vulnerable has been whole-heartedly embraced by Republicans in Congress. But their plan is more than wrong-thinking, it’s just plain wrong. And you don’t have to dig too deeply to see why: it would end Medicare as we know it."

"It’s clear that if Governor Pawlenty were elected president he would embrace far-right Republican policies, piling additional burdens on America’s seniors, young people, and working families in order to provide additional benefits to big oil and the wealthiest few."