As per her bio-data, Waters finished her high school from Vashon High School based in St. Louis, Missouri before shifting with her family to Los Angeles, California in 1961.
Waters worked at a garment factory and also worked as a telephone operator in her early days. She worked as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program at Watts in 1996.
Later, Waters joined Los Angeles State College where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Maxine Waters' Career
Early Political Career
In 1973, Maxine Waters served as a chief deputy to City Councilman David S. Cunningham, Jr. She entered the California State Assembly in 1976.
During her time at the assembly, Waters served for the divestment of state pension funds from any business activities in South Africa, then operated under the policy of apartheid.
Waters also helped pass legislation within the guidelines of the divestment campaign's Sullivan Principles. She mounted to the position of Democratic Caucus Chair for the Assembly.
U.S. House Of Representatives
Elections
Following the retirement of Augustus F. Hawkins in 1990, Maxine Waters was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 29th congressional district with maximum votes over 79%.
Waters has been re-elected consistently from California, renumbered as the 35th District in 1992 and as 43rd in 2012.
Tenure
Maxine Waters gained public attention when she interrupted a speech by Peter King on 29 July 1994. The presiding officer, Carrie Meek, classed her activity as ''unruly and turbulent'', and threatened to have the Sergeant at Arms present her with the Mace of the House of Representatives.
As of 2017, Maxine Waters was suspended from the house for the rest of the day. It was the most recent instance of the mace working in a disciplinary sense.
The clash with King stemmed from the first day when they both were present at a House Banking Committee hearing on Whitewater controversy.
Maxine Waters was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997-1998. In 2005, she testified at the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearings on 'Enforcement of Federal Anti-Fraud Laws in For-Profit Education'', highlighting the American College of Medical Technology.
In 2006, Waters was involved in a debate over King-Drew Medical Center. She also criticized media coverage of the hospital. She asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny a waiver of the cross-ownership ban and license renewal for KTLA-TV in 2006.
In 2012, after the retirement of Barney Frank, Waters became the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. On 14 July 2013, she voted in favor of Amendment 100 included in H.R. 2397 Department of Defence Appropriations Act of 2014.
Rodney King Verdict And The Los Angeles Riots
Maxine Waters gained national attention when she helped to deliver relief supplies when south-central Los Angeles erupted in riots in which fifty-eight people were killed after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. She also demanded the resumption of vital services.
She explained the riots as a rebellion, saying,
''If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable.''
CIA
Waters was called for an investigation after the 1996 San Jose Mercury News article alleged the complicity of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Los Angeles crack epidemic of the 1980s. Later, The Los Angeles Times concluded that evidence did not support the charges after its own investigation.
Gary Webb, the author of the original story, was eventually transferred to a different beat and removed from the investigative reporting, before his death in 2004. He was found dead in his apartment with two bullet holes in his head. His death was stated as a suicide.
Maxine Waters read into the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding following the post-publication investigations. In the memorandum, ex-President Ronald Reagan's CIA director rejected any duty by the CIA to report illegal narcotics supplying into the Department of Justice.
Allegations Of Corruption
As per the writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2004, of Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich, Waters' relatives made more than $1 million at the time of the preceding eight years by doing business with candidates, companies, and causes that she had helped.
They claimed that Waters along with her husband assisted a company to get government bond business, and her son Edward Waters, and daughter Karen Waters have profited her from her connections.
Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation regarding her efforts to help OneUnited Bank receive federal aid. Her husband is a stockholder and former director of OneUnited Bank and the bank's executives were major contributors to her campaigns.
In 2008, Maxine Waters fixed meetings between U.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash.
Positions
Barack Obama
In 2011 August, Maxine Waters trashed President Barack Obama, stating that he was insufficiently supportive of the black community. She also referred to the high unemployment rate for African-Americans that was hovering 15.9 percent at the time.
In October 2011, Waters took her criticism of Obama to a new level, by confronting the White House with racial issues it had worked hard to avoid.
Castro And Cuba
Maxine Waters visited Fidel Castro a couple of times, and praised towards democracy and criticized US efforts to throw him. She also demanded to stop the U.S. trade embargo.
In 1988, Maxine Waters wrote a letter to Castro, citing the 1960s and the following year as a shameful and sad part of the history and thanked Castro for helping needs.
In 1988, Waters supported a Republican bill to arrest convicted murderer Assata Shakur from Cuba. When Waters found that Shakur was listed by her previous name, Joanne Chesimard, she wrote a letter to Fidel Castro requesting him not to arrest him because many of the Black community considered her conviction as a false.
Maxine Waters called on President Bill Clinton to send the six-year-old boy back to Cuba after a woman drowned during an escape from Cuba to the U.S. in 1999 leaving a six-year-old son, Elian Gonzales.
Donald Trump
In 2017, Maxine Waters made her appearance on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, she stated President Trump's advisors who have oil or have ties to Russia and has an interest there are 'a bunch of scumbags'.
In Feb 2017, Waters stated that Donald Trump was leading himself to possible impeachments due to his conflicts and they also have many suspicions that Trump was creating 'chaos and division.''
Maxine Waters texted on Twitter for an allegation about Trump White House, '' Trump has made it clear - it is now the White Supremacists' House'', linking President Donald Trump to the violence that erupted at a white nationalist protest rally in Charlottesville Virginia on 12 August 2017.
In October 2017, Maxine Waters claimed the U.S. Congress had sufficient evidence against Donald Trump to 'be moving on impeachment, in reference to Russian collusion allegations at the time of 2016 Presidential election, and that Trump ''has openly obstructed justice in front of our face.''
Waters worked at a garment factory and also worked as a telephone operator in her early days. She worked as an assistant teacher with the Head Start program at Watts in 1996.
Later, Waters joined Los Angeles State College where she received a bachelor's degree in sociology.
Maxine Waters' Career
Early Political Career
In 1973, Maxine Waters served as a chief deputy to City Councilman David S. Cunningham, Jr. She entered the California State Assembly in 1976.
During her time at the assembly, Waters served for the divestment of state pension funds from any business activities in South Africa, then operated under the policy of apartheid.
Waters also helped pass legislation within the guidelines of the divestment campaign's Sullivan Principles. She mounted to the position of Democratic Caucus Chair for the Assembly.
U.S. House Of Representatives
Elections
Following the retirement of Augustus F. Hawkins in 1990, Maxine Waters was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for California's 29th congressional district with maximum votes over 79%.
Waters has been re-elected consistently from California, renumbered as the 35th District in 1992 and as 43rd in 2012.
Tenure
Maxine Waters gained public attention when she interrupted a speech by Peter King on 29 July 1994. The presiding officer, Carrie Meek, classed her activity as ''unruly and turbulent'', and threatened to have the Sergeant at Arms present her with the Mace of the House of Representatives.
As of 2017, Maxine Waters was suspended from the house for the rest of the day. It was the most recent instance of the mace working in a disciplinary sense.
The clash with King stemmed from the first day when they both were present at a House Banking Committee hearing on Whitewater controversy.
Maxine Waters was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997-1998. In 2005, she testified at the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearings on 'Enforcement of Federal Anti-Fraud Laws in For-Profit Education'', highlighting the American College of Medical Technology.
In 2006, Waters was involved in a debate over King-Drew Medical Center. She also criticized media coverage of the hospital. She asked the Federal Communications Commission to deny a waiver of the cross-ownership ban and license renewal for KTLA-TV in 2006.
In 2012, after the retirement of Barney Frank, Waters became the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. On 14 July 2013, she voted in favor of Amendment 100 included in H.R. 2397 Department of Defence Appropriations Act of 2014.
Rodney King Verdict And The Los Angeles Riots
Maxine Waters gained national attention when she helped to deliver relief supplies when south-central Los Angeles erupted in riots in which fifty-eight people were killed after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. She also demanded the resumption of vital services.
She explained the riots as a rebellion, saying,
''If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable.''
CIA
Waters was called for an investigation after the 1996 San Jose Mercury News article alleged the complicity of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Los Angeles crack epidemic of the 1980s. Later, The Los Angeles Times concluded that evidence did not support the charges after its own investigation.
Gary Webb, the author of the original story, was eventually transferred to a different beat and removed from the investigative reporting, before his death in 2004. He was found dead in his apartment with two bullet holes in his head. His death was stated as a suicide.
Maxine Waters read into the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding following the post-publication investigations. In the memorandum, ex-President Ronald Reagan's CIA director rejected any duty by the CIA to report illegal narcotics supplying into the Department of Justice.
Allegations Of Corruption
As per the writing in the Los Angeles Times in 2004, of Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich, Waters' relatives made more than $1 million at the time of the preceding eight years by doing business with candidates, companies, and causes that she had helped.
They claimed that Waters along with her husband assisted a company to get government bond business, and her son Edward Waters, and daughter Karen Waters have profited her from her connections.
Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation regarding her efforts to help OneUnited Bank receive federal aid. Her husband is a stockholder and former director of OneUnited Bank and the bank's executives were major contributors to her campaigns.
In 2008, Maxine Waters fixed meetings between U.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash.
Positions
Barack Obama
In 2011 August, Maxine Waters trashed President Barack Obama, stating that he was insufficiently supportive of the black community. She also referred to the high unemployment rate for African-Americans that was hovering 15.9 percent at the time.
In October 2011, Waters took her criticism of Obama to a new level, by confronting the White House with racial issues it had worked hard to avoid.
Castro And Cuba
Maxine Waters visited Fidel Castro a couple of times, and praised towards democracy and criticized US efforts to throw him. She also demanded to stop the U.S. trade embargo.
In 1988, Maxine Waters wrote a letter to Castro, citing the 1960s and the following year as a shameful and sad part of the history and thanked Castro for helping needs.
In 1988, Waters supported a Republican bill to arrest convicted murderer Assata Shakur from Cuba. When Waters found that Shakur was listed by her previous name, Joanne Chesimard, she wrote a letter to Fidel Castro requesting him not to arrest him because many of the Black community considered her conviction as a false.
Maxine Waters called on President Bill Clinton to send the six-year-old boy back to Cuba after a woman drowned during an escape from Cuba to the U.S. in 1999 leaving a six-year-old son, Elian Gonzales.
Donald Trump
In 2017, Maxine Waters made her appearance on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes, she stated President Trump's advisors who have oil or have ties to Russia and has an interest there are 'a bunch of scumbags'.
In Feb 2017, Waters stated that Donald Trump was leading himself to possible impeachments due to his conflicts and they also have many suspicions that Trump was creating 'chaos and division.''
Maxine Waters texted on Twitter for an allegation about Trump White House, '' Trump has made it clear - it is now the White Supremacists' House'', linking President Donald Trump to the violence that erupted at a white nationalist protest rally in Charlottesville Virginia on 12 August 2017.
In October 2017, Maxine Waters claimed the U.S. Congress had sufficient evidence against Donald Trump to 'be moving on impeachment, in reference to Russian collusion allegations at the time of 2016 Presidential election, and that Trump ''has openly obstructed justice in front of our face.''