Pete Stark: “I think that I have today to give credit where credit is due. This bill should really be referred to as the Deborah…”

“I think that I have today to give credit where credit is due. This bill should really be referred to as the Deborah Stark bill. Now, who is Deborah Stark? She happens to be the mother of my children and my long-suffering wife. And this bill has its genesis right down the road on Pennsylvania Avenue where she went one day, when we still lived in California full time, to have her eyes examined because her contact lenses were giving her problems and, hopefully, to get a new prescription and send it out to California to have it filled, so she would have her new contact lenses when she arrived home in California. So she went to this physician down the road. And as she was about to leave, having then paid the bill, she was told that she could not have a copy of the prescription. She was, not surprisingly, incredulous. I was not only incredulous, I was mildly upset, and that led to this day.…”