They are Democrats after all.
(The Hill) — A top ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee chastised maneuvers to replace Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) as the top Democrat on the panel as “circling a carcass like vultures.”
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), the fourth-ranking Democrat on the committee, said in a terse statement Tuesday that lawmakers should be focused more on helping people, not moving up the committee food chain.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is the second ranking Democrat on the committee, and said shortly after Frank’s announcement that she wants to “continue and expand” his work on the panel, but stopped short of explicitly announcing her intentions to take over as top Democrat, and potentially chairwoman if Democrats take back the House in 2012.