Pete Stark: “It is pure profiteering, largely at taxpayer expense.”

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

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 They are people too, who will lose their care if this is repealed.

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.