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House Votes to End Mortgage Reduction Program

WASHINGTON -- House Republicans pushed through legislation Tuesday to terminate an underachieving Obama administration program designed to reduce mortgage payments for homeowners in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure. Most Democrats, while acknowledging that the Home Affordable Modification Program has fallen...

Opinion: Mark Twain and the Word That Dares Not Speak Its Name

Mark Twain's classic "Huckleberry Finn," one of the most frequently banned books in America and one that is increasingly erased from reading lists and curricula across the country, is about to re-emerge in a racially cleansed format that makes it palatable for our oversensitive times, erasing a word I dare not mention,...

What Is the Mysterious New Evidence That Halted the Maxine Waters Investigation?

(Nov. 19) -- For now, it's a secret. Fresh off its recommendation of censure for Rep. Charles Rangel, the House ethics committee abruptly postponed a hearing for another Democratic member, California Rep. Maxine Waters. In a statement released today, the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct announced the...

Maxine Waters' Ethics Trial Put On Hold

On the day after the House Ethics Committee recommended a censure for Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), the committee announced Friday that it will not hold the trial of Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) on Nov. 29, as scheduled.

Opinion: Just What the Democrats Don't Need

(Aug. 13) -- There have been easier times to be a Democrat. Think way way back to the halcyon days of two years ago. Summer of '08. Basking like a lazy cat napping in a sun-drenched window box. Now, not so much. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must be thinking someone on her team swallowed a bad news electromagnet the size of a...

Maxine Waters News From the Web

05/24/12 Federal RMBS fraud taskforce reaches out to... Source: HousingWire.com The working group formed by the Justice Department and several other agencies to investigate residential mortgage-backed securities fraud during the housing boom opened a website for potential whistleblowers.
05/23/12 Are Black Lawmakers Being Unfairly Targeted? Source: Black Politics on the Web In September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was working to make sure minority-owned banks didn't get left behind.
05/23/12 Are Black Lawmakers Being Unfairly Targeted? Source: The Seattle Medium - Seattle WA In September 2008, at the height of the financial crisis, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was working to make sure minority-owned banks didnï¿½t get left behind.
05/18/12 Waters Challenges Khuzami on Securitization Fraud Task... Source: Firedoglake I don't know how House Democrats managed to get a hearing in the Financial Services Committee on the SEC's tendency to settle with financial firms and allowing the companies to get off without admitting wrongdoing, but I'm glad they did.
05/17/12 Cleaver: 'Concern' on ethics probes Source: Cleveland.com Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, wants to know why black lawmakers are being targeted in ethics investigations at a far higher rate than their non African-American colleagues.

Background on Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr; August 15, 1938) is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the 29th district, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party.

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