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Volume 2 Number 6


Winter 2019


Congresswoman Waters to Speak at UDC Commencement


BY UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, DC —


The


University of the District of Columbia announces


Congresswoman Maxine


Waters will be the keynote speaker at its 43rd Commencement Convocation. The powerful new leader of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee will also be presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree at that time.


Waters, an advocate for civil


rights and outspoken opponent of President Donald Trump, is a 15-term House Democrat. She’s been on the Financial Services Committee since 1991, serving as ranking member or chair of every subcommittee under its jurisdiction since 1995. She is now the first woman and first African American to lead the powerful committee and set the agenda in key areas affecting the economy, banking, housing, insurance, and securities.


Waters is also a tough defender


of consumer protections for college students. She has introduced legislation


that would enhance


penalties against for-profit colleges that misrepresent their costs, employment prospects, student loan default rates, completion rates and admission


schools that receive


requirements, and stop federal


funds


from using enrollment agreements to limit students’ access to courts.


more than four decades in popular among


Although Waters has spent public


service, it's only now that she's become


young


progressives. Earlier this year, she interrupted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a hearing, by saying, "reclaiming my time" over and over. Video


of the exchange between


Mnuchin and Waters quickly went MAXINE WATERS PAGE 10


400 years ago, the first Africans landed in English North America and helped to form


a multicultural nation. COMMEMORATE 400 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN IMPACT.


Plan to visit Hampton in 2019 to participate in the events, exhibitions, speaker series, performances, and reenactments that recognize the first Africans’ landing and examine our nation today.


Learn more at HamptonVA2019.com or call 800.800.2202


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