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Maxine Waters embraces role as top Democrat on powerful financial committee

By Take Two Staff
Published Jun 5, 2013
WASHINGTON - AUGUST 13: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) holds a news conference to challenge the charges made against her by the House of Representatives ethics committee at the U.S. Capitol August 13, 2010 in Washington, DC. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct said it found sufficient evidence that Waters' chief of staff, her grandson Mikael Moore, granted "special favors" to a struggling Massachusetts-based bank in which her husband owned stock. Waters has requested that a public trial by an ethics committee panel take place before the November election. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Maxine Waters
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) holds a news conference to challenge the charges made against her by the House of Representatives ethics committee at the U.S. Capitol August 13, 2010 in Washington, DC.
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Maxine Waters embraces role as top Democrat on powerful financial committee

Maxine Waters has settled into her new job. The LA congresswoman became the ranking Democrat on the powerful House Banking Committee. 

As KPCC's Washington Correspondent Kitty Felde reports, the post comes after a three-year fight to clear her name on banking-related ethics charges.