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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.
I would like to assure you that the Members on this side of the aisle understand this legislation. I would like to assure you that those of us who work on the Financial Services Committee, who put these bills into operation, who organized…
This amendment that I've worked on with my colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle is simply about transparency. It is simply about making ourselves available to the homeowners who are trying to get some help because they are under…
Yet, by and large, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have been collectively against job training grants, summer jobs funding, community development block grant funding, foreclosure prevention programs, heating subsidies for…
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.
Today, I continue to support a comprehensive framework that includes reforms to our deportation and detention policies, as well as border security.
Comprehensive reform is the only way that we will be able to create an immigration system that is fair, feasible, and protects American workers.
A study at the Pew Hispanic Center found that during the current recession, foreign-born workers have gained employment while native workers continue to lose jobs.
Clearly, today's hearing was organized to divert attention away from the inability to present policies and proposals that would truly stimulate the American economy and help put all Americans back to work.
I rise to support the Nadler-Lee-Stark amendment. I would like to thank them for bringing this amendment to the floor. I would like to thank all of them and the other Progressives in this House for the work that has been done in an attempt…
And I'm proud of the work we accomplished in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 to create a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Madam Chairman, and Members, I didn't get elected to the Congress of the…
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.
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.
I am very concerned about the representation that Dodd-Frank is going to lead to fewer jobs.
I find this discussion very engaging, and I am particularly interested, since I spent so much time on the Comcast-NBC merger.
Mr. Speaker, as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises, I am extremely concerned about the impact of the Republicans' continuing resolution on the ability of the Securities and Exchange…
Why should we be so concerned to make sure that you can receive your patents abroad and maybe even infringe on small inventors?
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…
I continue to believe that an unregulated shadow banking system created the crisis and that casino-style betting magnified and lengthened it.
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