Pete Stark

The Republicans have been busy over the last couple of months. They have passed legislation that would end foreclosure assistance programs with no alternative solution...

Secretary Gates recently stated that we could be in Afghanistan past the 2014 deadline for complete troop withdrawal. Meanwhile, more than 60 percent of Americans oppose this war, with more than 70 percent of people believing that we…

Singling out one religious group and blaming the actions of individuals on an entire community is not only unfair, it is unwise--and it will not make our country any safer.

The choice between our values of inclusiveness and pluralism and our security is a false one.

The debate we're having today has nothing to do with repealing the 1099 provision. Like every Democrat here who was in Congress last year, I've already voted to do that. We brought forth a bill last year to repeal the 1099 provision and…

I rise today to oppose the budgetless resolution. It ignores job creation, has no numbers, no specifics, and it gives no serious plan to reduce the deficit. The Republicans say they want to decrease the deficit and that they will try to…

I rise today in strong opposition to repealing health reform. Instead of focusing on job creation, my friends across the aisle want to refight the health reform debate and take away patient protections that are already helping people get…

I join my colleagues in honoring Representative Giffords, mourning the victims of this senseless shooting, and lauding the heroism of those who endangered themselves to help those who were injured. Saturday's horrific shooting in Tucson of…

I would like to remind my distinguished friend that health reform was 100 percent paid for, and the party that wants to spend $700 billion on the richest Americans for their tax cuts certainly shouldn't lecture anyone on the deficit.

I rise in support of H.R. 5712. The legislation as we know...to support it this morning.

And rise in support of H.R. 6130, which strengthens the Medicare Anti-Fraud Measures Act, as you have heard described here. This bipartisan fraud and abuse-fighting legislation was co-authored by our ranking member, Mr. Herger, and was…

The 75th anniversary of the East Bay Regional Park District really goes back to the early grassroots days of actually the Depression, when people in our district banded together in that time to organize and tax themselves to create this…

The service men and women serving overseas have born the brunt of the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act ensures that when they return, they will obtain the quality treatment…

I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Madam Speaker, since 1985, I have worked for today as we finish our job to enact health care reform in America. This reconciliation bill provides affordability of insurance premiums for low- and…

This is a historic day. We have worked to enact health reform in America for decades. President Johnson took a major step when he signed Medicare into law in 1965 and guaranteed every American age sixty-five and over quality, affordable…

I guess I introduced the first carbon tax.

We need to level Miami down toward Oregon, not level Oregon up toward Miami, or we are doing a severe injustice to our children and grandchildren.

If the Congress wishes to extend added benefits for these sorts of services, it seems to us that is your call, that is the Congress' responsibility, but in the interest of solvency of the Medicare Program and the interest of existing…

MedPAC's recommendations help us keep Medicare working well for providers, beneficiaries, and taxpayers.

We do not want to undermine employer coverage but rather build on what works when reforming the system.

We made some moves toward what President Obama has talked about as a moral and economic imperative for our economy.

in the past few weeks there has been a concerted media campaign to spread misinformation about the Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) provisions in H.R.1. To set the record straight, I submit for the Record the following summary of…

I just want to rise and ask my colleagues to support H.R. 2. It has done a lot of things. It expands insurance coverage to another 4 million children. You can argue one way or the other that they may have insurance someplace else, but this…

I rise in strong support of pay equity. The Supreme Court's ruling in Ledbetter v. Goodyear was absurd. If I broke the law for nearly two decades--as the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company did when they stiffed Lilly Ledbetter out of the pay…

I rise to support important progress toward reforming our troubled child welfare system. Today, we can come one step closer to fulfilling our promise to abused and neglected children that we will protect them, heal their wounds, and…