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Maxine Waters

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Maxine Moore Waters is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented California's 35th congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Waters is known for her outspoken views on various issues, including economic justice, civil rights, and government accountability. Throughout her career, she has been a strong advocate for policies aimed at addressing systemic inequalities and has played a significant role in discussions surrounding healthcare and financial reform.

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Jan 28, 2020

I don't think that Mr. Otting is serious about his willingness to cooperate with us.

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Jan 26, 2020

For Congress to ignore the specific words of the Constitution itself and substitute its own judgments would be for Congress to do what it is accusing the president of doing, and no one is above the law, not the president, and not Congress.

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Jan 26, 2020

Impeachment is whatever Congress says it is. There is no law.

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Jan 16, 2020

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I thank Representatives Bobby Scott and Susie Lee for their leadership on this important resolution. I rise to support H.J. Res. 76 which blocks Secretary DeVos' attempts to undermine the much-needed…

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Jan 14, 2020

America cannot tackle the threat if we refuse to recognize it, and I am eager to hear from the panel about what Congress should do to act forcefully where Trump has refused to do so.

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Jan 14, 2020

President Trump's language that there are, 'fine people on both sides,' and his willfully blind statements asserting that there is no global rise in white nationalism should concern all of us.

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Jan 14, 2020

And let me just say, Mr. Chairman, that fresh on our minds is the march that took place in Charlottesville, where we had white supremacists who were marching and chanting, 'You will not replace us. Jews will not replace us.'

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Jan 13, 2020

Today, this committee convenes for its first hearing of the year to examine our country's rental housing crisis.

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Jan 13, 2020

Gentrification has exacerbated the rental housing crisis in some communities.

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Jan 13, 2020

More than 10 million low-income households are severely cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 50 percent of their earnings on rent.

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Jan 13, 2020

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. McHENRY. Madam Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. I include in the Record a letter from the Credit Union National Association in support of H.R. 4458 and a blog post by the International…

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Dec 18, 2019

Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately, the rules of debate won't allow me to cite all of the reasons why this President should be impeached. There are many. However, Madam Speaker and Members of this House, to quote the late Maya Angelou…

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Dec 10, 2019

And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they are not welcome anymore, anywhere.

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Dec 5, 2019

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on passage of the bill will be followed by 5-minute votes on ordering the previous question…

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Dec 5, 2019

I strongly oppose Representative Huizenga's amendment that replaces the bill's standard of illegal insider trading while ``aware of'' material, nonpublic information with trading while ``using'' material, nonpublic information. This…

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Dec 5, 2019

First, I thank Ranking Member McHenry for offering this amendment to H.R. 2534 to help further ensure that this commonsense bill codifies the law against insider trading in a fair manner. When we marked up the bill in committee in May, I…

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Dec 5, 2019

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment, even though I am not opposed to it. The Acting CHAIR (Mr. Kennedy). Without objection, the gentlewoman from California is recognized for 5 minutes. There was no objection.

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Dec 5, 2019

Woman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chairwoman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 2534, the Insider Trading Prohibition Act, introduced by the gentleman from Connecticut, Representative Jim Himes. This long overdue bill…

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Dec 3, 2019

In rolling back important reforms put in place in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to protect consumers, investors, and the economy, regulators are opening the door to the bad practices that contributed to the…

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Dec 3, 2019

I am also very concerned that regulators are making a brazen attempt to weaken the implementation of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) under the guise of modernization.

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Dec 3, 2019

I am very concerned that our banking regulators are following the dangerous deregulatory blueprint that the Trump Administration laid out.

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Nov 20, 2019

My friend Fahari Jeffers' legacy as a civil rights and labor rights leader in American history had its beginning in the Black Power movement. She joined the San Diego chapter of the U.S. organization in 1967 and served as a teacher in the…

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Nov 19, 2019

Minority Depository Institutions play a vital role in serving low- to moderate-income and underbanked communities.

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Nov 19, 2019

You need to get to work on capital. You need to get to work on encouraging big banks to invest in small banks.

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Nov 19, 2019

Let me just say to the panel, if you are wondering about our frustration, it is because this issue has plagued us for so long, and we are watching the Black banks, in particular, that are literally going out of business to the point…

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