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Photo credit: Getty Images | Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) speaks during a markup hearing before the House Budget Committee April 6, 2011 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. President Barack Barack Obama recently picked Wasserman Schultz, a Long Island native, to become the new chairwoman for the Democratic National Committee.
Deborah Wasserman (Schultz) graduated from Half Hollow Hills
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was named chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee last week, will now play a key role in national politics as the party's chief strategist and fundraiser.
"It was amazing to grow up a little girl on Long Island, and to have the president have confidence in me," Wasserman Schultz said, recalling that her political career began inauspiciously in Melville.
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