Pete Stark: “The numbers given to me by the FDA were incorrect. In fact, approximately 25% of the sutures were recovered in the…”

Turning a physician's decision to refer a patient into a marketable commodity.

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.'

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.

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