Press Releases

Washington D.C. – Congresswoman Waters, with Congressional Black Caucus Chairman, G. K. Butterfield, led Congressional Black Caucus Members to the Department of Justice to hold a press conference and urge Attorney General Loretta Lynch to bring civil rights investigations for citizens whose civil rights have potentially been violated during unarmed killings by law enforcement. After the press conference, Congresswoman Waters and Chairman Butterfield hand delivered a letter to Attorney General Lynch outlining the Congressional Black Caucus’s concerns and proposed solutions.

WASHINGTON -- Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters responded to the closure of ITT Technical Institute in the following statement:

Washington D.C. - Congresswoman Maxine Waters issued the following statement in response to the United States Department of Justice's 163 page report outlining systemic civil rights violations practiced by the Baltimore City Police Department:

Washington, D.C. (July 15, 2016) – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Ranking Member of the Committee on Financial Services, released the following statement today in response to the deadly terrorist attack in Nice, France, which killed at least 84 people, including 2 Americans, and injured more than 200 people:

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee and a strong advocate for the Haitian people in the U.S. Congress, sent a letter yesterday to the Honorable Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, urging him to ensure that the UN’s response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti is sufficient to ensure justice for the people of Haiti and maintain the credibility and leadership of the UN.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (CA-43), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, today introduced the LAX Community Safety Act (H.R. 5651). This legislation would prevent Runway 24R, the northernmost runway at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), from being relocated farther to the north.

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee and Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, sent a letter to Ms. Mary Anne Penner, Director of Stamp Services at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), urging USPS to issue and sell an Alzheimer’s Research Semipostal Stamp as the inaugural semipostal stamp under the USPS discretionary Semipostal Stamp Program.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of the collapse of a 300-ton crane at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee and Torrance representative, released the following statement today:

“My sympathies are with the three injured contract workers and all of the workers that were affected by today’s collapse of a 300-ton crane at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance. I wish them a speedy and successful recovery.