Pete Stark: “I thank the gentleman for yielding me the time and would like to associate myself with his remarks and suggest that…”

The CBO has said it would lead to an increase in overall national health spending as seniors and people with disabilities are moved into less efficient, more costly private plans.

Medicare is one of our Nation's best programs, but it has always been a work in progress, and it needs ongoing fine-tuning and changing to keep it relevant.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 436, one more piece of Republican legislation that protects special interests at the expense of working with families. This is just another message in an attempt to…

What is shocking to me is that you want to spend even more than that and yet leave 30 million people without health care.