House Ethics Committee Holds Hearing On Rep. Maxine Waters

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 21: Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) (C) smiles before the start of a rare open House Committee on Ethics hearing in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill September 21, 2012 in Washington, DC. A long-running investigation found that Waters did not commit an ethics violaiton when her office in late 2008 set up a meeting with top Treasury Department officials on behalf of a bank Williams owned stock in, at a time when the bank faced possible collapse because of the financial crisis. However, Waters' Chief of Staff and grandson, Mikael Moore, was issued a letter of reproval for three ethics violations for helping the bank. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)