Pete Stark: “It would be prudent to cut funding for wasteful defense programs, and unnecessary manned space exploration.”

It gave every shyster and promoter a loophole. . . . We now have to keep rewriting the laws like the tax code.

I don't think I look much like Bill Murray, or have his wit, but I sure feel like him in his role in ``Groundhog Day.'' There are pressing issues facing our country--mainly the need to get our economy back on track and start creating jobs…

I dislike the notion that we need to increase costs for beneficiaries in order to fix the physician payment system.

Without the Affordable Care Act, the health insurance trust fund would expire eight years earlier, in 2016.