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Rep. Maxine Waters
- California
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TRACK OFFICIAL
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Party
Democratic
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Current Office
U.S. House
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First Elected
11/6/1990
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Next Election
2014
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Sponsored Bills
Congress 113
5
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CoSponsored Bills
Congress 113
45
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Missed Vote %
6.96%
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Votes with Party
93.96%
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OFFICE ADDRESS
10124 South Broadway Suite 1 Los Angeles, CA
Ph: 323-757-8900
Fx: 323-757-9506
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Maxine Waters is the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the 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 by the House's subcommittee on ethics with violations of the...
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Maxine Waters is the U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, and previously the 35th and 29th districts, serving since 1991. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the 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 by the House's subcommittee on ethics with violations of the...
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5877
To amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and title 5, United States Code, to require plans to establish policies addressing firm-specific risks in asset management services, greater diversification in investment strategies, and the inclusion of diverse asset managers and minority brokerage firms, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic...
Maxine Waters
has sponsored bill
HR5664
To amend the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to modify a high priority project in the State of California, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5571
To provide an increased allocation of funding for assistance in persistent poverty counties, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, Science, Space, and Technology, Energy and Commerce, and the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequen...
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5562
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 801 West Ocean Avenue in Lompoc, California, as the "Federal Correctional Officer Scott J. Williams Memorial Post Office Building".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5501
To establish a grant program to enhance existing secondary education programs for the purpose of teaching high school students about the Constitution of the United States and the constitutions of the individual States.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5478
To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to make certain limitations on the transfer of personal property to Federal and State agencies, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5468
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1103 USPS Building 1103 in Camp Pendleton, California, as the "Camp Pendleton Medal of Honor Post Office".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5331
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 73839 Gorgonio Drive in Twentynine Palms, California, as the "Colonel M.J. 'Mac' Dube, USMC Post Office Building".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5294
To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Agriculture, Education and the Workforce, the Budget, Veterans' Affairs, Armed Services, the Judiciary, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently d...
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5136
Breaking Addiction Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5109
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1048 West Robinhood Drive in Stockton, California, as the "W. Ronald Coale Memorial Post Office Building".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5106
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 100 Admiral Callaghan Lane in Vallejo, California, as the "Philmore Graham Post Office Building".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR5051
To ensure that employers cannot interfere in their employees' birth control and other health care decisions.
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the...
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR4939
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2551 Galena Avenue in Simi Valley, California, as the "Neil Havens Post Office".
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform....
Maxine Waters
has co-sponsored bill HR4851
Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2014
Current Status
Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerne...
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