A bee or wasp sting is an uncomfortable and often painful experience that is common during the warmer months when these stinging insects are most active and people spend more time outdoors. Bees and wasps use their stingers as a means of self-defense.
Rep. Maxine Waters. Waters, a Democrat, is the representative for California's 43rd congressional district and has served since Jan 3, 2013 (next election in 2018) (map). She was previously the representative for California's 35th congressional district (1993-2012); and the representative for California's 29th congressional district (1991-1992).
Waters was elected to the state Assembly in 1976 and was re-elected to seven consecutive terms. She won election to the U.S. House in 1990. Waters and her husband, Sidney Williams, a former U.S. ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, have two children. Maxine Waters' long political career has been characterized by supporting liberal causes and black rights, often in a confrontational manner.