Maxine Waters

I do not want to be snowed, I do not want to be patronized, I do not want to be talked to in that way. I have asked. I have made an accusation on the floor of Congress about the CIA and the Venezuelan drug deal, and I am asking the…

Yes, let me be clear about this one, and I do not go this far even in the South L.A. one. I am accusing the CIA on this one based on the information that I have of having been responsible for tons of cocaine coming into the United States…

I offer this amendment to establish a study of the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA. This study is designed to explore the involvement and the use of chemical weapons in the Persian Gulf war. Specifically, this amendment requires the…

The question is, these people are getting big subsidies. They are getting dollars, a million dollars in subsidies, corporate America is. How are we going to get the volunteer time?

The gentleman did state correctly that not included in the grievance procedure at this time are those criminal acts and drug offenses. So we make sure that the most egregious offenses are not in the grievance procedure. Would the gentleman…

When I checked with the DEA, who he was supposed to give the information to, nobody has a record.

I would like to caution the gentleman, before he takes such a tough stand in defense of the CIA, that there has been testimony under oath in Federal court in northern California by Mr. Blandon that he indeed under oath said he worked for…

I do not fear anybody. I am aware, as we look through the records, that people have died mysteriously who are involved in investigations. But I want to put everybody on record, as we move through these investigations, that I had better not…

Someday more politicians will approach tough decisions such as welfare reform with more care and integrity. This is not that day. Someday politicians will place children above politics. This is not that day. Someday politicians will place…

Yes, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, I am aware that it is not authorized in this legislation. However, the other banks are not authorized either, but they got a waiver in the rule. So what we have here is a construction that recognized that…

I have absolutely nothing in common with the NRA. I do not like guns, I wish there were none in our society. However, I have a passion for fairness. This passion for fairness drives me not to allow there to be law created for certain…

Is this an attempt to get the operating expenses that they rescinded and cut out of the budget, trying to get as much money as they can from the tenant in order to offset the money that they cut from the budget?

But I want to be clear, will the housing authorities have the ability to raise the rents as high as they would like to, above the 30 percent, regardless of ability to pay.

As a matter of fact, Mr. Chairman, the GSE's come to mind, the government service enterprises, where we have FNMA and Freddie Mac. That is not about anything more than ensuring that we have the vehicles by which we can get those mortgages…

To force a woman who has been raped, violated, brutalized, to carry a pregnancy to term is unconscionable. This amendment is consistent with Hyde. To punish a poor woman simply because she is poor is absolutely the kind of public policy…

If it is not a rule and you cannot cite a rule, and you are saying it is a prerogative of the Speaker, is it documented anywhere that the Speaker intended to handle his power in this way? You may not be aware that the Speaker said that he…

If we adopted any measures that would give 10 percent of our society 50 percent of the tax breaks, would the gentleman agree that that would be unequal and unfair?

Will the gentleman agree that, if we take any steps that would give 10 percent in our society 50 percent of the tax breaks, that something would be wrong with that, that that would not be fair? Would the gentleman agree?

This morning I awakened to a national news report that a Republican chairman of a major committee has threatened the President of the United States of America. That chairman, Chairman Leach, threatened that Republicans will withdraw their…