Waters: I Did Not Secure TARP Funds For OneUnited

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) holds an impromptu press conference Friday morning with reporters inside the Capitol to plead her innocence over ethics charges against her and her chief of staff.

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Maxine Waters: foreclosed homeowners might lose their vote, too

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) asks FBI Director Robert Mueller about allegations that homeowners whose houses have been foreclosed upon will be challenged at the polling place. Waters says she "never dreamed that foreclosure would bring us even this additional problem." The comment came in an FBI oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee. (1:01)

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Congresswoman Waters says U.S. in the middle of affordable housing crisis

Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) talks about the Hope Six Amendment Act of 2008. She says that without this bill, there are no exceptions in federal law for circumstances under which the five year deadline for Hope Six programs to expend their funds can be made. Waters also says that without an extension on this deadline, communities will suffer. (1:03)
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Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) discusses how "consumers have little leverage" in the loans they recieve

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA), chair of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, discusses the problems concerning consumers stuck in the foreclosure crisis at a hearing on foreclosure prevention and sound mortgage servicing. (0:33)
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Michael Chertoff says that FEMA trailers, just like every other trailer, has formaldehyde

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) asks Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff about the FEMA trailers, referring to them as "Formaldehyde Trailers." Chertoff says they are trailers sold on the open market, and Waters asks if they have formaldehyde in them. Chertoff says like every other trailer sold, yes, and Waters says "then they are formaldehyde trailers." You've got families in those trailers, she says, and Chertoff says that he would like to answer but he keeps getting interrupted. The Chairman tries to intervene, and Waters says that she didn't interrupt anyone else's question and would appreciate if they didn't interrupt hers. Chertoff says yes, like every other trailer sold on the open market, there is formaldehyde in them. They are using every means at their disposal, he says, to get people to leave those trailers. (1:30)
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