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9 months ago
in Maxine Waters Served on Real Time (VIDEO) on MsUnderestimated
In viewing the Federal Election Commission reports online, I could only find 2008 records. It shows Watters accepted $1000. Can anyone show she took another $14 K in previous years? If so, Maher should expose her lies. If she didn't take the 15 K, that should also be told. The problem with these types of programs is no one ever follows up to find the truth.
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"When the federal government announced two months ago that it would prop up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, CRP looked at how much money members of Congress had collected since 1989 from the companies. On Sunday the government completely took over the two government-sponsored enterprises, and we've returned to our data to bring you the updates, this time providing a list of all 354 lawmakers who have gotten money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in July we posted the top 25). These totals are based on data released electronically from the FEC on Sept. 2 and include contributions to lawmakers' leadership PACs and candidate committees from the floundering companies' PACs and employees. Current members of Congress have received a total of $4.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with Democrats collecting 57 percent of that. This week we also wrote about how much money lawmakers had invested of their own money in the companies last year--a total of up to $1.7 million. [...]
Name Office State Party Grand Total Total from PACs Total from Individuals
Waters, Maxine H CA D $17,800 $15,000 $2,800"