Refining Her Stance

(Fox News) - California Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters is backing off remarks she made that U.S. oil refineries should be nationalized and run by the federal government.

While speaking to oil company executives at a House Judiciary Committee hearing in May, Waters said: "This liberal will be all about socializing and the government running all of your companies."

But her communications director tells Cybercast News Service: "It was one comment in a long hearing. It's not a developed policy proposal. It was not an intentional statement."