Maxine Waters

As a Member of Congress representing both Latinos and African Americans, I am very disappointed with the majority's effort to pit minorities against one another in a blatant attempt to derail comprehensive immigration reform.

Comprehensive reform is the only way that we will be able to create an immigration system that is fair, feasible, and protects American workers.

We found widespread failures in financial regulation that proved devastating to the stability of the Nation's financial markets.

My colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle are claiming that regulation is a job killer.

We believe that we understand and recognize the cause of the meltdown and what brought us to the brink of a depression.

There is a fundamental debate that is going on in the Congress of the United States today.

Of course, the purpose of trying to rewrite the causes of the crisis I believe could only serve to undermine the Dodd-Frank Act and return the financial services industry to a nostalgic age of unchecked predatory lending, leverage, and…

It is very important that we hear from our Commissioners what they discovered about our financial crisis.

I find this discussion very engaging, and I am particularly interested, since I spent so much time on the Comcast-NBC merger.

I am very concerned about the representation that Dodd-Frank is going to lead to fewer jobs.

What do we need to do to make the SEC stronger? We've gone through this meltdown. We've have gone through this crisis. The American people expect something to happen. What do they need in order to be good overseers, good cops?

I want to ask you, is it true that the average investor-- I'm not just talking about the big institutional investors, but the average investor understands the complication of this? Do they expect that we understand it and we're going to…

Why should we be so concerned to make sure that you can receive your patents abroad and maybe even infringe on small inventors?

I continue to believe that an unregulated shadow banking system created the crisis and that casino-style betting magnified and lengthened it.

Today's hearing is an opportunity to address one of the most critical questions facing our economy: How do we continue to move forward from the crisis and organize a secondary mortgage market that ensures access to sustainable…

Unfortunately, instead of focusing on solutions to create jobs, today's hearing seems to be aimed at criticizing the Fed for acting in a manner consistent with this dual mandate.

I believe we must protect the reforms in Dodd-Frank because by preventing another bailout we are preventing another financial collapse that will result in the loss of millions more jobs.

The logical response to this systemic collapse of the financial market was for Congress to fill in the regulatory gaps so that this never happens again.

While the economy has shown some signs of recovery, it is clear that more aggressive action is needed from Congress in order to put our country back on the right track.

I want to work very closely with the opposite side of the aisle and take the politics out of dealing with this issue.

While I have always supported the mission of Fannie and Freddie, we recognize that they failed us.

We don't know the specifics, but we know that the integrity of the committee and its investigative process have been compromised. The longer the committee withholds the details of its actions, the more the public's confidence in the House…

We don't know the specifics but we know the integrity of the committee and its investigative process have been compromised. The longer the committee withholds the details of its actions, the more the public's confidence in the House Ethics…

She says she did nothing wrong, that she's actually being denied due process because of this.

A violation of rules was the charge that the House Ethics Committee made today against Congresswoman Maxine Waters. The 10-term Democrat from California is accused of trying to get Washington to give millions in bailout funds to a bank her…