Promise Tracker › Maxine Waters
U.S. Representative, California 43rd district · Democrat
Maxine Waters
44 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.
676 recorded votes
- Voted for26839.6%
- Voted against37455.3%
- Did not vote304.4%
Turned up for 95.0% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.
Waters voted 95 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the House, which is 98.
They vote the same way as Sylvia R. Garcia more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.
Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 66 times out of 100.
The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.
- First took office
- January 3, 1991
- Terms served
- 18 terms in the House
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
- Born
- August 15, 1938
Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.
What They Spoke On
Financial services carry nearly all of Waters's indexed remarks. An investor opportunities bill leads at four, then a consumer bureau rule, a stablecoins bill, a capital access bill and a crypto practices bill at three each. Housing and a privacy bill follow at two.
The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.
- Increasing Investor Opportunities Act4
- Denouncing the Horrors of Socialism3
- Disapproving the Rule Submitted by the Bureau of Consumer…3
- Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S.…3
- Main Street Capital Access Act3
- Protecting Americans from Harmful Crypto Practices3
- Housing for the 21st Century Act2
- Protecting Privacy in Purchases Act2
What Was Said, and What Was Done
44 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Maxine Waters’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.
- 2026-07-21MAIN STREET CAPITAL ACCESS ACT“If you want to be fair, charge all your big friends and all the big banks everything they should be charged with regulation. This is about whether or not you are going to use your power to literally undo what we have worked so hard to do to give the average person a decent chance with a bank, and that is community banks.”
- 2026-07-14PROTECTING PRIVACY IN PURCHASES ACT“Leading gun safety groups, including Brady, Community Justice, Everytown for Gun Safety, GIFFORDS, Guns Down America, and Newtown Action Alliance, sent the House a letter to urge Members to vote ``no'' on this harmful legislation.”
- 2026-06-30HOUSING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ACT“Madam Speaker, the 21st Century Road to Housing Act is historic legislation that will improve housing affordability and access in this country for millions of Americans. This legislation would not have been possible without the contributions of the minority professional staff of the Committee, who worked for months with advocacy groups, Members of Congress, and other stakeholders on drafting and perfecting this legislation.”
- 2026-05-19PROVIDING FOR THE CONCURRENCE BY THE HOUSE IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6644, WITH AMENDMENT“Mr. Speaker, let me just say that I appreciate Mr. Hill's support of some of the efforts that we made. Because of his background in banking and his experience, he understood exactly what we were talking about when we talked about the banks being able to do smaller loans and to provide mortgages for homes that cost a lot less than the millions of dollars.”
What Their Votes Add Up To
Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.
- Voted for
- Voted against
Voting With Their Party
On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Maxine Waters voted on 452 and was with the Democrat majority on 449 of them.
452 party line votes cast
- With their party44999.3%
- Against their party30.7%
Votes Against Their Own Party
- 22-Jul-2026H R 8800Voted Aye · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 21-Jul-2026H R 8800Voted No · On Agreeing to the Amendment
- 23-Jan-2025H R 471Voted Yea · On Passage
Who They Vote With
In Their Own Party
Of the votes both took part in.
- Sylvia R. GarciaDemocrat · TX · agreed on 98.9% of 613 shared votes
- Janice D. SchakowskyDemocrat · IL · agreed on 98.7% of 600 shared votes
- LaMonica McIverDemocrat · NJ · agreed on 98.6% of 639 shared votes
- Danny K. DavisDemocrat · IL · agreed on 98.5% of 616 shared votes
- Bonnie Watson ColemanDemocrat · NJ · agreed on 98.4% of 635 shared votes
Voting Across the Aisle
- James C. MoylanRepublican · GU · agreed on 65.8% of 73 shared votes
- Kimberlyn King-HindsRepublican · MP · agreed on 61.5% of 65 shared votes
- Brian K. FitzpatrickRepublican · PA · agreed on 43.9% of 636 shared votes
- James GallagherRepublican · CA · agreed on 39.3% of 89 shared votes
- Michael LawlerRepublican · NY · agreed on 36.2% of 632 shared votes
Where the Words Are
The Congressional Record marks Maxine Waters as speaking in 60 items of business across 33 sitting days of this Congress.
Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.
- July 27, 2026PERSONAL EXPLANATION; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 122
- July 27, 2026PERSONAL EXPLANATION; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 122
- July 21, 2026MAIN STREET CAPITAL ACCESS ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 119
- July 21, 2026MAIN STREET CAPITAL ACCESS ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 119
- July 14, 2026PROTECTING PRIVACY IN PURCHASES ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 114
- July 14, 2026PROTECTING PRIVACY IN PURCHASES ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 114
- June 30, 2026HOUSING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ACT; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 109
- June 24, 2026FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION PREVENTION ACT OF 2025; Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 106
The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.
Every Recorded Vote
All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Maxine Waters. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.
- 16-Sep-2026S 2403Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
- 16-Sep-2026H R 9497Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
- 16-Sep-2026H R 9340Voted for (Yea) · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended
- 16-Sep-2026H J RES 213Voted against (Nay) · On Passage
Elsewhere in the Record
- Everyone who represents California Both chambers, with a link to each member's page.
- Find your representatives Every member of the 119th Congress, by state.
The other California representatives in this Congress: Robert Garcia and Nanette Diaz Barragán.
How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.