Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) holds a news conference at the Capitol to challenge the charges made against her by the House Ethics Committee. Waters denied that she used her influence to aid a bank in which her husband has a financial interest. She also attacked ethics investigators for drawing the wrong conclusions from what she said was her lifetime work of trying to aid minority-owned businesses in general. Washington DC, August 13, 2010. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
Maxine Waters
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) faces the press after her appearance on This Week With George Stephanopoulos at the Newseum in Washington DC on Feb 15, 2009. Rep. Waters is a ten term lawmaker from Los Angeles and a senior Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. Here she talks about the recently passed $787 billion stimulus plan about to be signed into law by President Obama. (Photo by Jeff Malet)
