Maxine Waters insists 'I am not a socialist' when pressed at House hearing

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters said, "I am not a socialist," Tuesday when pressed by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, to disavow statements she made in 2008.

Salazar represents part of Miami, where many Cuban refugees have fled seeking safe haven in the United States from the communist regime in Cuba. Her resolution calls out socialist ideology for being responsible for totalitarian rule, brutal dictatorships, famine, mass murder, and various crimes against humanity. If Congress passes the concurrent resolution, it would be a formal statement by the House of Representatives and the Senate opposing socialism.  Chris Pandolfo is a writer for Fox News Digital. Send tips to chris.pandolfo@fox.com and follow him on Twitter @ChrisCPandolfo.

"We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth," Roy said in support of the resolution. "We can talk about these terms as if they don't matter, but they do. They do matter. They're actually at the core of who we are."