Honorable Maxine Waters
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Waters, of the Thirty-Fifth District of California, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990. She served in the California Assembly from 1976 to 1990. She sits on the Financial Services Committee and on the Judiciary Committee. She is also the Democrats’ Deputy Chief Whip and Cochair of the Democratic Steering Committee. The following is from the September 28, 2006, House floor debate on H.R. 6143, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act.I came to this floor really intending to support this bill. But, you know, I am not going to do it. I am not…
