Maxine Waters
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"Maxine Moore Waters" is the United States House of Representatives/U.S. Representative for , and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party. She is the List of current members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority/most senior of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and is a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. As an Assembly member, Waters advocated for divestment from South Africa's apartheid regime. In Congress, she was an outspoken opponent of the Iraq War. Waters was charged, and exonerated, by the House's subcommittee on ethics with violations of the House's ethics rules in 2010.

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They are already working on the articles of impeachment. They know where they are going. No, they are not going to allow any censure motion. They do not care ... what evidence is presented by the White House or anybody else.

One of the most un-American things that one can imagine.

We're building a growing movement against the war in Iraq that will give people who feel uncomfortable about the war a place to share their concerns and discuss and work through a solution -- should it be immediate withdrawal or an exit strategy. We want to build a consensus that we want to get out.

I don't see white police officers slamming the heads of little white boys into police cars.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.

Policy, for the most part, has been made by white people in America, not by people of color. And they have tended to take care of those things that they think are important. Whether it's their agricultural subsidies, or other kinds of expenditures that are certainly not expenditures for poor people or for people of color. And so we have to band together and keep fighting back.

Disrespect and contempt for our community.

I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man.