• By
  • Gerald F. Seib






The Democratic speaker at the dinner was Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schulz, who poked fun at her own absence from the House Democratic leadership. A prolific fund-raiser, the congresswoman had hoped to be named head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee but was passed over for the job by outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Which led Rep. Wasserman Schulz to crack that the speaker had instead named a holiday in her honor: “Passover.”



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