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Rep. Maxine Waters: 'The Tea Party Can Go Straight To Hell' August 20, 2011 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) came out swinging against Republicans in Congress on Saturday as she addressed the unemployed during a forum in Inglewood. The event occurred a day after new statistics were released showing that California's jobless rate last month went up to 12%, from 11.8%. California now has the second-highest rate of unemployment in the nation, trailing only Nevada at 12.9%, and its jobless rate is well above the U.S. average of 9.1%. Waters vowed to push Congress to focus on creating more jobs....

Rep. Jackson-Lee: Chavez Has 'Many Friends' in Congress Reprinted from NewsMax.com Feb. 23, 2007 A U.S. congresswoman called on the Bush administration Wednesday to reconsider its ban on selling parts for U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets to Venezuela, urging improved ties between the two nations. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat, told reporters that she was making the first U.S. congressional visit to Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez's December re-election with the message: "I want an immediate repairing of the relations between the United States and Venezuela." Jackson Lee described Venezuela as a friendly nation that the U.S. should...

NANCY PELOSI SCREWS UP BIG TIME: TELLS ABC'S THIS WEEK THAT WE SHOULDN'T GO INTO IRAQ FOR TWO REASONS: 1) THERE'S NO EVIDENCE THAT THEY HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, 2) THEY'LL USE BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS AGAINST OUR TROOPS!