Pete Stark: “Singling out one religious group and blaming the actions of individuals on an entire community is not only unfair, it is…”

I strongly agree with that and yet, here we are where repealing the ACA without a replacement as the Republicans have already begun to do, would cost roughly $350 billion through 2027.

I would first of all like to try to make it the protocol in this committee--I am not succeeding too well--that we strike from our lexicon the word 'disability.'

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

Those 43,000 people are not just anecdotes. They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.