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Watch Video of the Congresswoman's Q & A with Attorney General Holder
Mr. Chairman, thank you for scheduling today's oversight hearing for the Department of Justice.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) issued the following statement after President Obama announced late last night that Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. military and intelligence personnel:
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) yesterday reintroduced H.R. 1567, the Foreclosure Prevention and Sound Mortgage Servicing Act of 2011. Congresswoman Waters has introduced similar legislation since the 110th Congress, and has long maintained that the servicing industry is broken.
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), a leading progressive voice in Congress, today strongly criticized the Republicans' destructive budget proposals, including both the deal cut for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2011 funding, and the Republican budget for Fiscal Year 2012.
by Jon Prior
Mortgage servicers may have to review as much as $535 billion in loans for possible remediation to borrowers who suffered financially from improper foreclosures, according to an estimate from the investment bank Keefe, Bruyette & Woods.
This amendment offered by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) was accepted by Republicans and included in the final bill H.R. 1249, the America Invents Act, that passed the Committee today. In introducing her amendment, the Congresswomand delivered the following remarks:
I have an amendment at the desk.
By Alejandro Lazo and E. Scott Reckard
Citing "pervasive" misconduct in foreclosures, federal regulators have ordered the nation's biggest banks to overhaul their procedures and compensate borrowers injured financially by wrongdoing or negligence.
By Dina ElBoghdady
Three federal agencies announced agreements with the nation's largest mortgage servicers Wednesday that aim to stem shoddy foreclosure practices. But the plans do not immediately impose financial penalties on the companies or force them to reduce the mortgage debt for troubled borrowers.
By Lorraine Woellert
The 14 largest U.S. mortgage servicers must pay back homeowners for losses from foreclosures or loans that were mishandled in the wake of the housing collapse, the first of a set of sanctions regulators are seeking against the companies.