Pete Stark: “I saw the ad. I took the trouble to vet them out. They are not worth the paper that ad is printed on.”

I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. One of the previous Speakers, Mr. O'Neill, mentioned that, and you forgot to mention this, but Tip O'Neill said that I probably had one of the best 5-minute speeches of any new Member of…

The 75-year target doesn't bother me much, but I will come back and ask Mr. Herger, he will find out what it is like.

we are not being asked to contribute anything to pay for that war. Lower income people maybe are.

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