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      <excerpt>...more lawmakers will come over to the majority. &quot;I don't believe all those people who say no,&quot; said 19-term Rep. Fortney &quot;Pete&quot; Stark, D-Calif. &quot;When they look up at the board, do they really want to vote against providing coverage to millions of people?</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...when the voting starts, more lawmakers will come over.  &quot;I don't believe all those people who say no,&quot; said 19-term Rep. Pete Stark (D-Fremont). &quot;When they look up at the board, do they really want to vote against providing coverage to millions of peopl</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a surplus in 2005 was based on information extrapolated from data posted on the city's Web site, combined with a statement Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, made to Congress in 2006 while congratulating Newark Mayor David W. Smith.  In the speech, Stark made </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...and the Rio Grande Valley, according to lawmakers and physicians who support the hospitals.  The restriction is championed by Rep. Pete Stark, a California Democrat who says physician-owned hospitals cherry-pick wealthy patients to the detriment of nonp</excerpt>
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      <title>Texas lawmakers try to give doctor-owned hospitals a dose of help</title>
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      <excerpt>...of Congress to flame their way to fame, including Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn.; Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla.; and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. But his personal success&#8212;and that of his vocal compatriots on the right&#8212;does not necessarily reflect good tim</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...just go away. Nick Papas, a spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department, dismissed it as &quot;old news,&quot; while Rep. Pete Stark, a California Democrat, said the report is &quot;incomplete and out of date relative to what will ultimately be voted on in </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...costs than private plans. &#8220;Medicare has lower administrative costs than any private plan on the market,&#8221; U.S. Rep. Pete Stark wrote years ago as the government-run health care movement started picking up steam. This is simply not true. Medicaid plan</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...journalist asked the same question too many times, Stark threatened to throw him out the window. WASHINGTON &#8212; Fortney &quot;Pete&quot; Stark is sitting in a gilded meeting room in the House of Representatives. It is home to the powerful Ways and Means Committee</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...journalist asked the same question too many times, Stark threatened to throw him out the window. WASHINGTON &#8212; Fortney &quot;Pete&quot; Stark is sitting in a gilded meeting room in the House of Representatives. It is home to the powerful Ways and Means Committee</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Contacted the office of my Blue Dog Rep. Gene Taylor; his stance has been that he is against this bill and his office confirmed that to me just now. GnuBreed on November 6, 2009 at 12:33 PM. My congresswoman is Michele Bachman. Eat your  hearts out. .... T</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>WASHINGTON, DC - November 6, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) &#8212; Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) today praised House passage of Unemployment Insurance Benefits for an additional 20 weeks for workers in California. The Unemployment Compensation Extension ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>A fighter for health care as chari of the budget subcommittee on health when in the Assembly, she quickly filled former Rep. Hilda Solis&amp;#39; shoes on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee as it passed health reform out of committee ...  who are so </excerpt>
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