Rep. Fortney Stark

Democrat  •  13th District, California  •  19th Term  •  Sworn In 1973
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 93%
  • Abstains: 25%

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01/24/07
Bush: Tax And State Help For Uninsured

Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-Calif.), who leads the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, said his panel would not even hold hearings on the plan. ...

Source: CBS News, NY
01/25/07
Dems rip Bush health tax plan

Fortney "Pete" Stark, D-Fremont, chairman of the House Ways and Means health subcommittee, said his panel won't consider Bush's proposal. ...

Source: Sacramento Bee, CA
01/25/07
US Rep. Woolsey's Bill Would "Bring Troops Home" in Six Months

... Donald Payne (D-NJ), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Fortney Pete Stark (D-CA), Maxine Water (D-CA), and Diane Watson (D-CA), and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA). ...

Source: Political Affairs Magazine, NY
01/26/07
Will the Democrats Move Quickly to Re-shape Our Broken Trade Policies

Six are Democrats, including second-ranking Democrat Fortney Pete Stark of California. Still to hop aboard: slightly more than 105 Democratic returnees and ...

Source: AmericanEconomicAlert.org, DC
03/01/07
Nonpartisan estimate of cost of Bush health policy plan is $526B

Fortney Stark, D-Calif., a harsh critic of the president's plan, said he has talked to the committee's staff, and it is reassessing assumptions. ...

Source: Arizona Daily Star, AZ
03/12/07
First 'Nontheistic' Member of Congress

Fortney "Pete" Stark, D-Calif., is the first openly "nontheistic" member of Congress, the Secular Coalition for America announced Monday, March 12. ...

Source: Beliefnet.com, NY
04/15/07
Dems Find It Hard to Cut Health Program

"There seems to be no question that they’re overpaid," said Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommittee on Medicare and a proponent of ...

Source: KSTP.com, MN
04/15/07
Democrats slowed in efforts on Medicare

"There seems to be no question that they're overpaid," said Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommittee on Medicare and a proponent of ...

Source: MLive.com, MI
04/16/07
Democrats Slowed In Efforts On Medicare

"There seems to be no question that they're overpaid," said Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommittee on Medicare and a proponent of ...

Source: CBS 13, CA
04/16/07
Medicare managed care cuts stalled

“There seems to be no question that they’re overpaid,” said Rep. Fortney Stark, D-Calif., chairman of a House subcommittee on Medicare and a proponent of ...

Source: Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA
06/27/07
Nicholas F. Benton: How I Explain LaRouche

So I got involved with LaRouche, despite warnings from some, like Rep. Fortney Stark, who told me personally that LaRouche “was CIA. ...

Source: Falls Church News Press, VA
07/31/07
Virginia Newspaper Owner Describes Former Association With LaRouche

So I got involved with LaRouche, despite warnings from some, like Rep. Fortney Stark, who told me personally that LaRouche "was CIA. ...

Source: Earthtimes.org
07/31/07
Virginia Newspaper Owner Describes Former Association With LaRouche

So I got involved with LaRouche, despite warnings from some, like Rep. Fortney Stark, who told me personally that LaRouche "was CIA. ...

Source: PR Newswire (press release), NY
10/18/07
Fortney's complaint. (Was Pete Stark drunk?)

I'd like to think that Representative Fortney "Pete" Stark (D-California) was drunk, trashed out of his little gourd. He accused the White House of lying ...

Source: Red State
10/28/08
Open Congress: Congress Funded by D.C. Interests

...system so that Representatives can focus on voters, not dialing long-distance for dollars.” According to the report, Rep. Fortney Stark (D-CA) received the most out-of-district money, with a staggering 99.6 percent of his campaign money coming from pe

04/05/09
Congress seeks redemption

...some of the most important potential players in the health care arena — including Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. — are nearing the end of their careers and would like to achieve a legislative breakthrough. "It would be

Source: Denver Post
04/10/09
Campaign of Energy Leader Lost $700,000 in Markets

...insurance by that much. Miller is unlikely to dump his unpaid treasurer: His wife, Cathleen Miller, handles the books. Rep. Pete Stark , D-Calif., who owned banks before he was elected to Congress in 1972, reported posting investment gains of $124,000

Source: CQ Politics
04/12/09
REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK: Law changes help recruiting

The laws are named for US Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. Stark has championed laws that prohibit physicians from referring patients to health care facilities in ...

Source: Crain's Detroit Business
04/12/09
Barbara Boxer is a grandma, again

Every year or two, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, sits down to lunch with reporters in his district for a chat; we broke bread today at Paradiso in San Leandro ...

Source: Contra Costa Times
04/12/09
Barbara Boxer is a grandma, again

...in Oakland, where the senator keeps one of her California homes. She is the senator's first granddaughter. Every year or two, Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, sits down to lunch with reporters in his district for a chat; we broke bread today at Paradiso in S

04/16/09
Congressional Testimony Underscores Value of Primary Care in ...

Robert Berenson, MD, right, from the Urban Institute, and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., confer during a break in testimony about the importance of a primary ...

Source: AAFP News Now
04/17/09
111th Congress Expresses Its “Vigorous Support” for Israel's Gaza ...

As in previous Congresses, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has introduced bills that would prohibit aid to Saudi Arabia and military aid to Egypt. ...

Source: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
04/17/09
Power deal brings proposed Hayward plant closer to approval

Other opponents include the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, US Rep. Pete Stark and Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele. Numerous union affiliates have ...

Source: San Jose Mercury News
04/19/09
The Silent Minority

...Mormon and even HBO has a whole show devoted to them. Even though the non-religious are more than ten times larger, other than Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), not one member of Congress would even admit to being in the dreaded minority of non-believers. They ar

04/21/09
Congress Returns, Prepares To Tackle Health Reform, Other Administration Priorities

...(April 13), which parrots the talking points of the health insurance lobby," House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-Calif.) writes in a Journal letter to the editor. He cites the case of the insurance firm Health Net, which "reward

04/28/09
Bill would boost open-source EHRs for rural use

... which appears to be a resurrection of an open-source support provision in healthcare IT legislation proposed last year by Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.). ...

Source: ModernHealthcare.com
04/28/09
AAKP honors Reps. Camp, Stark

On April 22, the American Association of Kidney Patients honored Representatives Dave Camp, R-Mich., and Pete Stark , D-Calif, for their continued ...

Source: NephrOnline
04/29/09
Catching up with atheist evangelists

In fact, US Rep. Pete Stark remains the only modern member of Congress to be an “out-atheist.“ I've blogged quite a bit about the New Atheists and their ...

Source: The Jewish Journal of greater L.A
04/30/09
Well-Being Newsmakers: 04/30/2009

The 2009 Medal of Excellence was given to Camp and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., for their efforts in passing the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gift of Life Medal Act. ...

Source: Traverse City Record Eagle
05/04/09
Lawmakers rank Pelosi the most-partisan Dem

and Pete Stark (D-Calif.) as partisans. Several panel chairmen were lauded as bipartisan, including Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn. ...

Source: The Hill

Official website: http://www.house.gov/stark/
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239 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-5065
Fax: 202-226-3805

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