Pete Stark: “The President's Medicare reform proposals move us in that direction.”

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

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…

I think we have to ask ourselves, how do we do more good than harm in eliminating the compensation arrangements.

I can count on maybe one hand the Democrats who support vouchers or similar proposals.