Īs a Democratic representative in Congress, Waters was a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
At a minimum, defending against one would cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers' fees and probably delay license renewal about three months". According to Broadcasting & Cable, the challenges raised "the specter of costly legal battles to defend station holdings. She said, "The Los Angeles Times has had an inordinate effect on public opinion and has used it to harm the local community in specific instances." She requested that the FCC force the paper to either sell its station or risk losing that station's broadcast rights. She criticized media coverage of the hospital and asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a waiver of the cross ownership ban, and hence license renewal for KTLA-TV, a station the Los Angeles Times owned. In 2006, she was involved in the debate over King Drew Medical Center. House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearings on "Enforcement of Federal Anti-Fraud Laws in For-Profit Education", highlighting the American College of Medical Technology as a "problem school" in her district. Waters chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1998. Waters felt King's questioning of Maggie Williams ( Hillary Clinton's chief of staff) was too harsh, and they subsequently exchanged hostile words. The conflict with King stemmed from the previous day, when they had both been present at a House Banking Committee hearing on the Whitewater controversy.
Waters was eventually suspended from the House for the rest of the day. As of 2017, this is the most recent instance of the mace being employed for a disciplinary purpose. The presiding officer, Carrie Meek, classed her behavior as "unruly and turbulent", and threatened to have the Sergeant at Arms present her with the Mace of the House of Representatives (the equivalent of a formal warning to desist). On July 29, 1994, Waters came to public attention when she repeatedly interrupted a speech by Representative Peter King. Waters at a 1998 House Committee on the Judiciary hearing during the Impeachment inquiry against Bill Clinton She ascended to the position of Democratic Caucus Chair for the Assembly. In the Assembly, she worked for the divestment of state pension funds from any businesses active in South Africa, a country then operating under the policy of apartheid, and helped pass legislation within the guidelines of the divestment campaign's Sullivan Principles. She was elected to the California State Assembly in 1976. In 1973, Waters went to work as chief deputy to City Councilman David S. Waters later enrolled at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles), where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1971. She worked in a garment factory and as a telephone operator before being hired as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program in Watts in 1966. Louis before moving with her family to Los Angeles in 1961. She graduated from Vashon High School in St. The fifth of 13 children, she was raised by her single mother after her father left the family when Maxine was two. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Remus Carr and Velma Lee (née Moore).
As an assemblywoman, she advocated divestment from South Africa's apartheid regime. representative, Waters served in the California State Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. She chairs the House Financial Services Committee.īefore becoming a U.S. She is the second-most senior member of the California congressional delegation, after Nancy Pelosi. She is the most senior of the 12 black women serving in Congress, and chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.
The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southern Los Angeles, as well as portions of Gardena, Inglewood and Torrance.Ī member of the Democratic Party, Waters is in her 15th House term. representative for California's 43rd congressional district since 1991. Maxine Moore Waters (née Carr born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as the U.S.