Rep. Maxine Waters

Democrat  •  35th District, California  •  11th Term  •  Sworn In 1991
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06/03/12
Despite specter of ethics charges, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters looks like easy South Bay victor

...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

Source: Daily Breeze
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06/02/12
Democratic Reps. Laura Richardson, Janice Hahn battle over new 44th Congressional District

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 ...

Source: Long Beach Press-Telegram
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06/02/12
Democratic Reps. Laura Richardson, Janice Hahn battle over new 44th Congressional District

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 ...

Source: San Jose Mercury News
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06/02/12
Despite specter of ethics charges, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters looks like easy South Bay victor

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 ...

Source: Daily Breeze
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06/01/12
Rangel Attacks Process That Led to His Censure

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 ...

Source: New York Times
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05/31/12
Federal Repeal of the Constitutional Right to Self Govern

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 ...

Source: RedState
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05/30/12
Facebook stumble saps support for new IPO rules

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 ...

Source: Tri-City Herald
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05/30/12
Facebook stumble saps support for new IPO rules

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 ...

Source: The News & Observer
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05/30/12
Cantor skips Obama signing ceremony for Export-Import Bank

...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

Source: The Hill
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05/26/12
Democratic Rep. Claims Victimizing Women is ‘as American as Apple Pie’

...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

Source: The Blaze
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05/25/12
Pontchartrain Park rebuilding effort may lose key financing

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 ...

Source: nola.com
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05/25/12
Commentary: As Christians Burn

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 ...

Source: WGMD Radio
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05/25/12
Will falling gas prices help Obama?

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.

Source: Politico.com
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05/24/12
Funeral for Bishop H.H. Brookins to be held June 1

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.

Source: Los Angeles Times
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05/24/12
H.H. Brookins, bishop and pastor was 86

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 ...

Source: LA Observed
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05/24/12
They Came With a Mean Spirit’: Maxine Waters Trashes the Tea Party — Again

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 ...

Source: YAHOO!
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05/24/12
H.H. Brookins, L.A. pastor who was influential black leader, dies at 86

...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

Source: Miami Herald
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05/24/12
H.H. Brookins, activist minister, dies

...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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05/24/12
Rep. Maxine Waters: Tea Party ‘Came With a Mean Spirit’

...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

Source: NewsMax
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05/23/12
Obama Threw Blacks Under the Bus

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 ...

Source: NewsMax.com
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05/23/12
Maxine Waters Smears Tea Party... At Church

Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-D) told a congregation on Sunday that the “mean spirited” Tea Party that won in 2010 wants to cut food stamps and doesn’t want to fund education. Really? I didn’t know that one of the Tea Party ‘planks’ was no ...

Source: FOX News
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05/23/12
Star of Award-Winning Documentary “First Generation” returns to Watts Alma Mater for Special Screening

May 24th at 10 AM with special guests Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the filmmakers Adam and Jaye Fenderson, and cast member and Jordan alumnus Dontay Gray. Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood and filmed over the course of three years ...

Source: PRWeb
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05/23/12
Star of Award-Winning Documentary "First Generation" returns to Watts Alma Mater for Special Screening

May 24th at 10 AM with special guests Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the filmmakers Adam and Jaye Fenderson, and cast member and Jordan alumnus Dontay Gray. Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood and filmed over the course of three years ...

Source: Benzinga
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05/23/12
Star of Award-Winning Documentary “First Generation” returns to Watts Alma Mater for Special Screening

May 24th at 10 AM with special guests Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the filmmakers Adam and Jaye Fenderson, and cast member and Jordan alumnus Dontay Gray. Narrated by Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood and filmed over the course of three years ...

Source: YAHOO!
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05/23/12
Maxine Waters: Tea Party Coming After Me For "Trying To Help People Of Color"

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) tells a church congregation tha the Tea Party wants to cut food stamps, cut education and overturn Obamacare. (via Weasel Zippers) and The Right Scoop)

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05/22/12
Facebook stock offering to be reviewed by Senate panel

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told POLITICO in a statement Wednesday that the IPO deserves Hill attention because it suggests retail investors received the short end of the stick. She also stressed the importance of oversight given lawmakers' passage of ..

Source: Politico.com
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05/22/12
2012 ESSENCE Music Festival Presents The Official Free ESSENCE Empowerment Experience Day-By-Day Line-Up

NEW YORK, May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ESSENCE is proud to announce the official line up of the ESSENCE Empowerment Experience at the ESSENCE Music Festival in New Orleans this July 5th-8th. As the nation's definitive African-American live ...

Source: Yahoo Finance
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05/22/12
What if Zimmerman walks free?

Trayvon was "shot down in cold blood by a vigilante ... murdered and martyred." Rep. Maxine Waters' charge of "hate crime" was echoed by radio talker Joe Madison. Rep. Hank Johnson said Trayvon had been "executed." The Grio compared his killing to the ...

Source: Human Events (blog)
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05/22/12
Patrick Buchanan: What If Zimmerman Walks Free? – OpEd

Trayvon was “shot down in cold blood by a vigilante … murdered and martyred.” Rep. Maxine Waters’ charge of “hate crime” was echoed by radio talker Joe Madison. Rep. Hank Johnson said Trayvon had been “executed.” The Grio compared his ...

Source: eurasiareview.com
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05/22/12
What If Zimmerman Walks Free?

Trayvon was "shot down in cold blood by a vigilante ... murdered and martyred." Rep. Maxine Waters' charge of "hate crime" was echoed by radio talker Joe Madison. Rep. Hank Johnson said Trayvon had been "executed." The Grio compared his killing to the ...

Source: YAHOO!
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Phone: 202-225-2201
Fax: 202-225-7854

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