Pete Stark: “Does the gentleman suppose they inherited most of their money, what they are getting, $645,000?”

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

Thank you for holding this hearing and thank our witnesses for their service.

Basically Republicans want to take away Medicare's guaranteed benefits and replace it with a voucher and put the insurance companies back in charge.

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…