The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform. There were still six minutes and fifty-two seconds on the clock and the chair made a move to gavel the vote closed. Democrats waived their opposition, keeping the vote open. Almost every eye...
The House of Representatives has successfully passed the health care bill with 220 votes. 11:07 PM ET — House health care bill gets votes needed for passage. 220 members of Congress — including one Republican, Rep. Joseph Cao of Louisiana — voted in favor of health care reform, advancing the legislation by the slimmist of margins. Forty-nine Democrats voted against the bill, along...
Redistributing whose wealth? BY: Burt Prelutsky For some peculiar reason, America's left-wingers object to being called socialists. In fact, we have only one member of Congress, Vermont's Bernie Sanders, who has the gumption to admit he is one. Still, so far as I can tell, he's no more socialistic than any of the other leftist pinheads in Washington. I mean, the truth is, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi,...
Filed under: Opinion , Politics , Race and Civil Rights Wait a minute now. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it looks like racial profiling has jumped from the 'hood to Capitol Hill. According to a Politico article , the House Ethics Committee is actively investigating seven African American lawmakers under full-scale ethics probes, but not a single white person serving in Congress is under the same kind...
[author and premiere investigative blogger Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel) is live blogging the House Judiciary Committee hearings on renewal of the Patriot Act. Today's hearing begins at 7:00 a.m. Alaska time. Her live blogging can be found here, at EMPTYWHEEL . [Here's emptywheel's summary of Wednesday's hearing:] A quick overview of Wednesday’s doings in House Judiciary Committee’s mark-up...
After Tuesday night’s thumping administered by independents and conservatives, I’d think it’d be wise for Democrats living in swing districts to pay attention to their constituents, especially if they attended TEA Parties and townhall meetings. That goes double for those Democrats who are considering voting in lockstep with John Conyers and Maxine Waters, especially if [...]
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Shareholders would have an easier way to nominate a minority slate of directors onto corporate boards under controversial legislation approved by a congressional committee Wednesday. The legislation, which was introduced by Reps. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Gary Peters, D-Mich., was approved by a vote of 39-30. It would strengthen a proposal already being considered by...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“Business Roundtable opposes Rep. Maxine Waters’ recent amendment to the Investor Protection Act of 2009. This amendment gives the SEC the authority to adopt a federal minimum proxy access right that will inevitably obstruct the ability of management and boards to focus on long-term, sustainable growth and value creation for shareholders and employees by promoting...
Mortgage expert Edwart Pinto offers up his prescription for fixing the crisis at the FHA. The first document is his testimony in front of Congresswoman Maxine Waters in which he suggests upping (and sticking to) higher down-payment demands, and limiting the FHA only to low and middle end income. The secon document outlines the miserabl eforeclosure history of the FHA. Note that foreclosure starts...
The New York Times reports that two Democratic congresswomen, including the high-powered Rep. Maxine Waters (pictured) are under investigation for potential ethics violations. What they don’t mention until a little further down is that civilians are getting a peak behind the signs of the ethics committee deliberations thanks to a less-than-competent staffer: A committee statement about [...]
Read it. Recently, Democratic Representative Maxine Waters added an amendment to the bill establishing the CFPA that would add five seats to its powerful Oversight Board for “experts in the fields of consumer protection, fair lending and civil rights, representatives of depository institutions that primarily serve underserved communities, or representatives of communities that have been significantly...
The most corrupt, and powerful 'queen' in the country is teaming up with the dumbest woman of Congress to try and bring ACORN back as an arm of the Federal government despite it's outing as an organized crime syndicate. Freaky Barney Frank and special ed poster girl Maxine Waters have introduced an amendment to allow ACORN to regulate banking. No, really ... check it out !
California Democrat Maxine Waters is going to be investigated by the House Ethics Panel for a possible violation. As a member of the House Financial Services Committee, and as chairman of its subcommittee. Maxine Waters has been working hard to solve, or at least ease, the banking crisis. Perhaps she has been working just [...]
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TPMmuckraker looks at the accusations against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) in a case involving the bailout and a Boston-based bank in which her husband had a stake.
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