... congressional influence is the subject of a TARP inspector general report due out this summer. In one prominent case, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., arranged a meeting between regulators and OneUnited of Massachusetts, a bank in which her husband ...

... 2006, also took heat for what critics believe was lax oversight. "How disappointed I am with all of us," Rep. Maxine Waters told Bernanke during a recent House hearing. "Members of Congress, for what appears to have been weak oversight ...

... That was the voice of ideology. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat, had a 95 percent liberal record last year; Maxine Waters, 100 percent. That Bay State trio of Barney Frank, Marty Meehan and Bill Delahunt? All perfect 100 percenters ...

... along party lines. All Republicans and Democratic Rep. Robert Scott of Virginia opposed the proposal, and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., voted present. Democrats then made one final attempt to win a promise from Republicans that they will ...

... be tabled, or killed. ''Whatever procedural possibilities are available to you, you use them,'' said Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. ''That's not considered delay. It's considered smart parliamentary moves.''

... utterly impossible. In the wake of the House Judiciary Committee vote in favor of four articles of impeachment, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) became so addled that she warned of an impending ''legislative coup.'' The president decided to ...

... father this week. That list was highlighted by such strong opponents of the United States' Cuban policy as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), Joan Brown Campbell of the National Council of Churches and ...

... hey," a grinning Gore told Rep. Jesse Jackson, D-Ill., who raised one of the challenges. When an angry Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said she did not care that a senator had not signed her objection, Gore responded, "The chair will ...

... legislative counsel for Consumers Union, said at a hearing Thursday by a House Financial Services subcommittee. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., suggested it would be "patriotic" for the Visa and MasterCard networks to direct their tens of thousands ...

... Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., has attracted bipartisan support, including liberal partisans Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, and Maxine Waters, D-Calif. They're on board because their poor and working-class constituents stand to be bulldozed by government ...