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April 29, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the Financial Services Committee, issued an urgent Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) update to small businesses in the 43rd District:


April 27, 2020

WASHINGTON – In the interim emergency relief package that was recently signed into law and replenished the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) with $310 billion, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, led the fight to target $60 billion of those funds towards small, minority, and women owned businesses. The bill, which is known as thePaycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act (H.R.


April 27, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, released a statement today announcing that the three airports in her congressional district each received a federal grant to address the economic impact of the coronavirus on their operations.


April 24, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, released a statement today announcing that Behavioral Health Services (BHS), Inc., which provides primary healthcare services to low-income and underserved patients at locations throughout Los Angeles County, including the Cities of Gardena and Hawthorne in the Congresswoman's congressional district, received three federal grants totaling $1,264,245 to support its primary care and coronavirus response work. Her statement follows:


April 13, 2020

LOS ANGELES – In light of the unprecedented economic and health challenges presented to working families and small businesses by the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has employed the full force of her office and leveraged new technology to assist the people of the 43rd District.


April 13, 2020

LOS ANGELES – In light of the alarming reports of the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on the African American community, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) urging the release of all demographic and resource allocation data regarding COVID-19 testing supplies, PPE, ventilators, and other medical equipment and supplies.


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Dolores Huerta
April 11, 2020

LOS ANGELES – On April 10, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) honored labor and civil rights icon, Dolores Huerta, with a certificate of recognition on her 90th birthday, and thanked her for "her tireless work fighting for the rights of workers, children, women, families, immigrants, and the least of these."


April 10, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43) issued a statement condemning the highly offensive White House Briefing Room remarks by U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams who singled out African Americans, saying they should avoid "alcohol, tobacco, and drugs," and encouraged minorities to "do this, if not for yourself, then for your abuela. Do it for your granddaddy, do it for your Big Mama, do it for your pop-pop." Her statement follows:


April 7, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, issued a statement on the death of the founder of Black Enterprise, Earl G. Graves, Sr.:

"Today, we mourn the passing of a visionary leader and titan of business, entrepreneurship, and media: Earl G. Graves, Sr.


April 6, 2020

LOS ANGELES – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, was joined by more than 15,000 concerned residents during her second 43rd District Telephone Town Hall discussing the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on Thursday, April 2.