Opinion Pieces
  • The Fed Bets on America
    Sep 25, 2012 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following opinion editorial for the Huffington Post: Recently, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), led by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and with an overwhelming vote of 11 to 1, decided to undertake another round of purchases of mortg... More
  • The State of Our Union Is Dependent on Housing
    Jan 24, 2012 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following opinion editorial for the Huffington Post: Back in October, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made news by suggesting -- in Las Vegas, of all places -- that we simply needed to let the housing crisis wash through the system, a... More
  • California Deserves a Better Deal
    Nov 17, 2011 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following opinion editorial for the Huffington Post: A recent editorial in the Los Angeles Times, "California Should Make that Mortgage Deal," admonishes California Attorney General Kamala Harris for her insistence on ensuring that the big banks th... More
  • Ending Foreclosure Assistance Programs Right Now Is A Terrible Idea
    Mar 15, 2011 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following opinion editorial for the Huffington Post: Though their stated pledges since coming to power have been to 'cut the deficit' and 'create jobs,' House Republicans will soon take a series of votes to further solidify a radical agenda that do... More
  • Republican Budget Cuts: Lost Jobs, Lagging Community Investment, Less Help for the Poor
    Feb 24, 2011 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following op-ed for the Afro American Newspaper. House Republicans last week introduced a spending measure to fund the federal government for the rest of fiscal year. And, perhaps not surprisingly, it is an extreme and indiscriminate assault on Afr... More
  • Rep. Waters: In this time of national sorrow, let us look to Dr. King
    Jan 17, 2011 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) authored the following op-ed for The Hill Congress Blog in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: In this time of national sorrow, let us look to Dr. King By Rep. Maxine Waters This 25th anniversary of our national celebration of ... More
  • Republicans Willing to Grow the Deficit and Wealth Gap to Help Nation’s Richest
    Dec 8, 2010 - Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) posted the following op-ed on Huffington Post: Two years ago, Members of Congress were forced to take a very difficult vote on what the federal government’s response would be to the worst economic collapse in modern history. As apprehensive as we were to bail out t... More
  • Urge Senators to Support Flood Insurance Bill
    Aug 3, 2010 - Congresswoman Waters wrote the following letter to the editor on her legislation to reauthorize the National Flood Insurance Program. This letter was published in the Visalia Times Delta: From your coverage of the flood-insurance bill that I introduced and Congress passed ["Visalia City Councilmen u... More
  • My Provision Does Not Politicize the Federal Reserve
    Jun 18, 2010 - Congresswoman Waters authored the following letter to the editor in response to a Wall Street Journal editorial that criticized a provision she authored in the Wall Street reform and consumer protection bill: The Journal editorial "Politicizing the Fed" (June 14) is filled with misrepresentations, u... More
  • Bill Prevents Predatory Practices
    May 12, 2010 - By Rep. Maxine Waters Special to Roll Call The people who live and work in the 35th Congressional district of California are thousands of miles from the financial district of New York City. Many of my constituents are working-class and middle-class blacks and Latinos, certainly not Wall Street mogul... More

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