The Atlantic Wire - The House ethics committee has announced charges against Democratic
Congresswoman Maxine Water, who is from California. Waters used her congressional authority to meet with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on
behalf of the Massachusetts-based OneUnited bank, in which her husband,
as a former director, owned $250,000 of stock. OneUnited
eventually received $12 million in federal bailout funds Here's what
people are saying so far about the case, which comes as fellow
Democratic Congressman Charlie Rangel is mired in his own ethics
investigation.
