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April 19, 2013

U.S. Doctors for Africa, a Los-Angeles-based non-profit organization, convened the 2nd African First Ladies Health Summit at the Intercontinental Hotel Century City April 2-4. The Summit provided a platform for the first ladies to make individual presentations and obtain strategic partners to help them find the best ways to solve their health-centered problems.


April 5, 2013

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-South Los Angeles, helped break ground March 28 on a public works project that she helped secure $1 million in federal funds to replace the sidewalk and plant new trees along a stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard in Westchester.

Waters joined Los Angeles City Councilman Bill Rosendahl and members of the Westchester Streetscape Improvement Association, who worked with her to secure the grant back in 2008.


April 3, 2013

The fight to keep small knives off planes has gone to the front lines: Flight attendants lobbied passengers Monday to join them in putting pressure on the TSA not to change current security policy.

Flight attendants were walking from terminal to terminal to enlist grass-roots support, urging passengers to petition the White House.

It's the latest in a campaign to overturn a Transportation Security Administration decision that would allow flyers to carry small knives. The ban was imposed after September 11, 2001. The TSA plans to lift the ban on April 25.


April 3, 2013

Although Washington, D.C. is nearly 3,000 miles away, the potential after-effects of the federal sequester could stretch all the way to the coast of Santa Monica.

The air traffic control tower at Santa Monica Airport is on a list of airport facilities released by the Federal Aviation Administration March 1 – the day the sequestration officially began – that might be closed soon due to potential furloughs of airport personnel, including air traffic controllers.


April 3, 2013

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Westchester) has reintroduced legislation that could pave the way for additional light rail stations in Leimert Park as well as Westchester.

The Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) Grants for Job Creation Act was announced March 13 and would provide $1 billion over a two-year period for transportation infrastructure.


March 27, 2013

Congresswoman Maxine Waters believes her job is to fight for the care and support of seniors, especially on the issues of Alzheimer's disease, elder abuse, housing and quality healthcare, she said at the inaugural Advocates for African American Elders public event held in February, congratulating the similarly focused advocacy group on its outreach to the African-American community to ensure a decent quality of life for all seniors.


March 8, 2013

A senior House Democrat is seeking support for legislation that would pump more money into the Transportation Department's popular TIGER grant program.

Maxine Waters of California has sent a letter to colleagues, trying to find cosponsors for a bill that would restore cuts to the grant program for infrastructure projects with national or regional significance, which funds road, bridge, transit and airport projects of regional and national interest.


February 22, 2013

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Westchester) is encouraged that the Los Angeles City Council chose to postpone voting on a contentious ordinance after hearing from a housing official who informed them of the potential legal consequences if the proposed law were approved in its current form.


February 22, 2013

A senior House Democrat is pressing federal regulators for additional information as to why they shut down a foreclosure examination program.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, on Tuesday sent her second letter within the past few weeks asking regulators why they terminated the Independent Foreclosure Review (IFR) following a $9.3 billion settlement with 14 banks over shoddy foreclosures practices.


February 22, 2013

Anyone who has ever watched former Rep. Barney Frank at a hearing or give a speech knows that he is a tough act to follow.

But that is particularly true for Rep. Maxine Waters, who has inherited his mantle as leader of the Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee, a role Frank played for a decade.