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      <excerpt> Rep. Fortney &amp;quot;Pete&amp;quot; Stark (Calif.), the panel&amp;#39;s ranking Democrat, told him, &amp;quot;Bush stands idly by as jobs continue to take flight from the US, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Complicating the Rangel situation is that Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., is next in line in seniority on Ways and Means. He is erratic, controversial, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...You've got to help push the Congress.&quot; HR3699, she said, is a first step toward that. The bill's 23 co-sponsors include Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont; Rep. Mike Honda, D-San Jose; and Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Petaluma. Lee chairs the Congressional Black Caucus</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...-- and to claim every one of them.&quot;  Real estate is the most popular shelter. Indeed, it's such a good tax shelter that as Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., put it memorably: &quot;It'd take a genius to invest in real estate and pay taxes.&quot; Real estate provides lev</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Other representatives who signed the letter with the request to GAO are: Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), chairman of the Ways and Means Health subcommittee and ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...the legislation were California House leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D - S.F.), Rep. Henry Waxman (D - L.A.) and Rep. Pete Stark House (D - Freemont).  Over the past seven years, Congress has created a band-aid solution to the flawed formula t</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Pete Stark (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.), and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) requested the report in a Nov. ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Complicating the Rangel situation is that Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., is next in line in seniority on Ways and Means. He is erratic, controversial, ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>California Democrat Pete Stark agrees: &#8220;Employers and insurers will reduce their benefits to avoid paying the proposed tax.&#8221; Workers fortunate to have union contracts will be heavily pressured to concede their plans, which in the past ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>This is a significant expansion of the 32 Democrats who voted against funding in June. The signatories are: Jim McGovern (D-MA) Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) Jim McDermott (D-WA) Pete Stark (D-CA) Bruce Braley (D-IA) Phil Hare (D-IL) ...</excerpt>
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