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Cong. Debbie Wasserman Schultz speaks to media in Broward County

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Before the arrest of a suspect in the mail bomb scare, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was asked if she had any reason why her name was used on the return address in the packages mailed to political figures.

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"I really don't know. All I know is  that an... attack on any one of us, the... use or potential use of any of us that are serving the public, or anyone for that matter, to attempt to harm people, is sinister and horrific and it is not something that we are going to tolerate," Wasserman Schultz said Friday morning.

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Earlier this week her office in Sunrise was evacuated due to a suspicious package.

"We will never be cowed into submission by people who hate. Never. Never," she said Thursday.

A suspicious package addressed to New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker was found during an overnight search of a Opa-locka, Florida mail facility.

A law enforcement official said the package was similar to the others sent to targets of right-wing anger, with the return address listed as the Sunrise office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  

Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.