Pete Stark

I resent being dragged into Rick Santorum's hapless re-election campaign by having to vote on bills designed to provide him and other extremist Republicans with cover for their opposition to productive embryonic stem cell research. S…

I reject all the ridiculous premises of the resolution: The premise that terrorists would have had no clue that international wire transfers would be subject to monitoring until they read about it in the New York Times; the premise that…

even if I supported offshore drilling--which I don't--I certainly wouldn't do it through this fiscally reckless and convoluted bill. The Domestic Energy Production through Offshore Exploration and Equitable Treatment of State Holdings Act…

I oppose the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007 because I refuse to pretend that partially restoring the President's reckless cuts to important programs is the best we can do. We…

I appreciate his usual tenacity in watch-dogging the Federal dollar. I would apologize. On our side of the aisle, the whip notice had it incorrect as it came out this morning. The gentleman is correct. It has been corrected. The…

if there was any doubt, FEMA's performance during Hurricane Katrina proved the Department of Homeland Security's incompetence. I had hoped that more than 3 years after its creation, the Department would use common sense. But as DHS…

even President Bush admits that this country's addiction to oil is a crisis, but, like a desperate junkie, the Republican Congress is frantically trying one more time to squeeze every last drop out of our pristine wilderness. Mr. Pombo's…

We seriously hope that he will grow up to be a Democrat. But, aside from that, I want to extend best wishes. He is a man who practices what he preaches and is doing his share to extend this concern for adoptive children in this country.

I do not think it should go unnoticed that the distinguished majority whip has become a recent adoptive father of, I believe, now a 7-month-old boy.

it appears the third time's the charm for the Republican leadership. Unfortunately, the same is not true for working Americans who will be worse off under yet another morally reprehensible Republican budget. This budget insults students…

that is the question. I would therefore, Mr. Speaker, like to address a question to the author of the bill. Would she be willing, as you have said, she has the clear authority to withdraw her motion, amend it so that 1 million Americans…

second parliamentary inquiry. Is it possible for the gentlewoman from Connecticut, the author of the amendment, to withdraw the motion, accept a friendly amendment to urge the administration to move the May 15 enrollment deadline to the…

I would like to address a parliamentary inquiry to the Chair. Is this motion amendable? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Inglis of South Carolina). No, it is not.

H.R. 4954, the SAFE Port Act, falls far short of what's needed. Because the Republican majority operates largely as a subsidiary of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, they refuse to take the only step that will ensure the safety of our ports…

yesterday, a woman told President Bush that she was having a hard time understanding his prescription drug program and needed more time so that she could make an informed choice for her mother. Bush told her too bad. Specifically, he said…

I rise today to tell a tale of two Republican disasters, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. It is a story with no best of times, only the worst of times. This tale is why I oppose the Supplemental Appropriations Act (H.R. 4939). The main…

I rise in opposition to S. 2271, the USA PATRIOT Act. Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006. This bill is a great example of what happens when you put Republican Senators in a room with Dick Cheney to negotiate over…

I would just like to correct, if I may, the chairman's assertions. He has suggested that the Senate's relief is more focused at the rich, and that is not true. It is true that both the House and the Senate would give about 90 percent of…

the first thing is, here we go again. If we are rewarding an ally for helping us in Iraq, where I understand there are no Bahranian troops, but we have got a Navy base. Well, if we are paying off for a Navy base, how about Cuba? Why do we…

I rise to honor the life of former Representative Edward Roybal who passed away on October 24, 2005. He is survived by his wife, Lucille Beserra Roybal, and his three children, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, Lillian Roybal-Rose an Edward…

last night Ed Roybal passed away. He is survived by his wife, Lucille, and his three children: our colleague of course, Lucille Roybal-Allard; her sister, Lillian Roybal-Rose; and Ed, Jr. Ed was born in 1916, served in the military, served…

we have been told that weapons of mass destruction required an invasion of Iraq, that ketchup is a vegetable, and that global warming is a vast, left-wing conspiracy. Now, the great minds of the Republican Party want us to believe that…

I rise against H.R. 3058, the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, because it shortchanges critical needs of the most…

I guess I would be willing to suggest that the Medicaid programs are perfect, but for one major problem, and that would be the Republican Party in the Congress of the United States. What changes would I make? I would enforce the ethics…

I yield myself enough time to remind the historians here that it was the Republicans in the 1800s who established the original inheritance tax to prevent a nobility class from forming, an idle nobility class, in this country. Mr. Speaker…