Pete Stark: “Well, what do our international obligations have to do with this darn bridge being built in my district and putting all…”

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

In 2007 Pete Stark wrote that he believed that, on balance, the law may have done more harm than good.

Basically Republicans want to take away Medicare's guaranteed benefits and replace it with a voucher and put the insurance companies back in charge.

The home health copayment, for instance, I think is largely ascribed to be used by old, sick, poor widows, and raising the price that they have to pay is just one more Republican effort to deny equal rights to women.