Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Maxine Waters [D, CA-35]

Despite specter of ethics charges, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters looks like easy South Bay victor

2012-06-03T01:00:00Z

...though a series of ethics charges have loomed for nearly two years, veteran South Bay Rep. Maxine Waters faces only token opposition in the race for the South Bay's new 43rd Congressional District. Ethics Committee's 10 members dropped out of the invest

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Democratic Reps. Laura Richardson, Janice Hahn battle over new 44th Congressional District

2012-06-02T22:02:59Z

into three chunks that overlapped with areas already represented by Richardson, Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Henry Waxman. "I wished that Laura had assessed it for a longer period about what it would mean," Hahn said. "But, she just said that she ...

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Democratic Reps. Laura Richardson, Janice Hahn battle over new 44th Congressional District

2012-06-02T21:05:43Z

Despite specter of ethics charges, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters looks like easy South Bay victor

2012-06-02T20:37:05Z

Even though a series of ethics charges have loomed for nearly two years, veteran South Bay Rep. Maxine Waters faces only token opposition in the race for the South Bay's new 43rd Congressional District. Waters and and fellow Democrat Bob Flores ...

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Rangel Attacks Process That Led to His Censure

2012-06-01T21:28:22Z

Mr. Rangel and Maxine Waters, a California Democrat ... Neither Mr. Chisam nor Mr. Schwager would comment on the case. In his memo, to Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat who headed the committee, Mr. Chisam said that because ...

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Federal Repeal of the Constitutional Right to Self Govern

2012-05-31T13:37:07Z

32nd dist. http://chu.house.gov/connect-with-me/email-judy Washington Contact: 202-225-5464 Congresswoman Maxine Waters D-CA. 35th dist. https://watersforms.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm Washington contact: 202-225-2201 Fax. 202-225-7854 ...

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Facebook stumble saps support for new IPO rules

2012-05-30T08:01:52Z

But Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee, said the Facebook IPO has raised concerns that Congress should examine. Those issues, she said, include "the erosion of the firewall between analysts ...

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Facebook stumble saps support for new IPO rules

2012-05-30T08:01:52Z

Cantor skips Obama signing ceremony for Export-Import Bank

2012-05-30T01:00:00Z

...by workers who made and sold the best products in the world.” Other members of Congress in the audience included Democratic Reps. Maxine Waters (Calif.), Jim McDermott (Wash.), Rick Larsen (Wash.) and Norm Dicks (Wash.). During brief remarks before a

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Democratic Rep. Claims Victimizing Women is ‘as American as Apple Pie’

2012-05-26T01:00:00Z

...P.S. More laws are not going to solve “victimization” of anybody in this country. Restoring Christian families is our only hope. Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee, Frederica Wilson, etc. etc. etc. : Is there no end to these babbling bozos and their

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Pontchartrain Park rebuilding effort may lose key financing

2012-05-25T22:55:25Z

Pontchartrain Park moved SRP’s Paul Taylor, who was delivered to the group by U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., “to the background,” set up a new partnership with First NBC Bank’s community development corporation and promised to have ...

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Commentary: As Christians Burn

2012-05-25T21:00:53Z

Toe the party line at services and political messages from the pulpit are celebrated. Witness U.S. Representative Maxine Waters: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/05/23/maxine_waters_tea_party_coming_after_me_for_trying_to_help ...

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Will falling gas prices help Obama?

2012-05-25T11:56:51Z

Rep. Maxine Waters is available for interviews to make the point that high prices affect women & minorities, while rich Romney types conduct business as usual, but her phone is not ringing. Here's another reason there isn't an uproar this weekend.

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Funeral for Bishop H.H. Brookins to be held June 1

2012-05-24T16:37:13Z

Harvard Blvd., in Los Angeles. The 86-year-old died Tuesday after a long illness. Brookins was a longtime mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, former U.S. Rep. Diane Watson and many others.

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H.H. Brookins, bishop and pastor was 86

2012-05-24T12:05:12Z

He remained a bishop of the AME church.... "He really was not only a fantastic religious and spiritual leader, he was a fabulous politician," U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) said Wednesday, noting that hers was one of many political careers ...

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They Came With a Mean Spirit’: Maxine Waters Trashes the Tea Party — Again

2012-05-24T06:14:27Z

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), never one to mince words when it comes to the Tea Party, launched a new salvo Sunday saying its members have a “mean spirit.” Video of Waters shows her giving a speech and explaining what happened when the ...

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H.H. Brookins, L.A. pastor who was influential black leader, dies at 86

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...to Africa. "He really was not only a fantastic religious and spiritual leader, he was a fabulous politician," U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said Wednesday, noting that hers was one of many political careers Brookins encouraged and fostered. "His ro

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H.H. Brookins, activist minister, dies

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...Clinton . "He really was not only a fantastic religious and spiritual leader, he was a fabulous politician," U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters , D-Calif., said. "His role in the black community and his understanding of how to seek power and influence at a time wh

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Rep. Maxine Waters: Tea Party ‘Came With a Mean Spirit’

2012-05-24T01:00:00Z

...Maxine Waters, D-Calif., no stranger to provocative rhetoric, stirred the pot again on Sunday, accusing the tea party of harboring a “mean spirit” in a video posted on Youtube. Speaking at a church service, Rep. Waters denounced the arrival of the t

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Obama Threw Blacks Under the Bus

2012-05-23T16:52:43Z

Commenting last August on Obama’s jobs-related bus tour of the nation, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) lamented: “We’re supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired . . . Our people are hurting . . . We don’t know why ...

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