# Maxine Waters **Maxine Waters** (b. 1938) is a Democratic U.S. Representative from California, in the House since 1991, and the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee. She is the House counterpart to [[Elizabeth Warren]] on financial-regulation oversight, and the two have acted jointly against the second Trump administration's efforts to defund and dismantle the [[CFPB]]. > [!note] Stub — fill out > To expand: full biography, chairmanship of Financial Services (2019–2023), the Dodd-Frank rollback fights, her role in crypto market-structure legislation, and her position as a recurring target of right-wing media. ## See Also - [[Elizabeth Warren]] — Senate counterpart - [[CFPB]] — the agency they have jointly defended - [[Regulatory Capture]]