Pete Stark

Activists Visit Geithner's Home to Ask "Which Side Are You On?"

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Peter Scher, Bank of America, Pete Stark, Wall Street, Financial Speculation Tax, Tom Harkin, Peter DeFazio, National People's Action, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Jamie Dimon, Timothy Geithner, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Politics News
Peter Dreier

The protesters consider Geithner the key architect of Obama's economic recovery plan and the loudest voice within the president's inner circle for taking a "hands off" approach to tougher government rules to tame Wall Street's risky practices.

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Lucia Graves

Obama Endorses Rep. Pete Stark, California Icon

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Friday officially endorsed Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), the 20-term veteran of Congress who is facing a surpris...

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Pot Advocates Lose Friends In High Places

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Video, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Elections 2012, Medical Marijuana, Rep. Ron Paul, Pot, Cannabis, Pete Stark, Pete Stark 2012, Medical Marijuana Legalization, Rep. Barney Frank, Pete Stark Marijuana, Congressman Pete Stark, Solyndra, Tesla, Politics News

Pot advocates have already been hard hit by the retirement announcements of Reps. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who've long lobbied t...

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Jeffrey Young

Rahm Emanuel Fights For Widely Criticized Debt Collector

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Lori Swanson, Kathleen Sebelius, Lobbying, Health Care Costs, Al Franken, Henry Waxman, Business, Politics, Debt Collectors, Pete Stark, Rahm Emanuel, Debt Collection, Hospitals, Diana DeGette, Health Care, G. K. Butterfield, Accretive Health, Healthcare Costs, Healthcare, Business News

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants his Democratic colleague Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to lay off hospital debt-collector Accretive Health,...

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The Real Solyndra Scandal

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Gaffe, Department of Energy Loan Guarantee Program, Rep. Pete Stark, Rick Perry Gaffe, Mitt Romney, Pete Stark Gaffe, Elections 2012, Congressional Election, Rick Perry, California Primaries, Video, Redistricting, Pete Stark 2012, Pete Stark, Keystone XL Pipeline, Solar Panels, California Elections, Presidential Election, Solyndra, Election 2012, Tesla, Green News

Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.), the 20-term incumbent facing a surprisingly competitive race in California's 15th congressional district, drew headlines r...

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Jeffrey Young

Here Come The Feds: Hospital Debt Collection Under Scrutiny From Obama Cabinet Member And Democrats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Lori Swanson, Debt, Minnesota, Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Costs, Economy, Jobs, Health Insurance, Henry Waxman, Business, Video, Debt Collectors, Uninsured, Pete Stark, Hospitals, Hhs, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

Government regulators are looking into reports of aggressive debt collectors hassling patients at hospitals. Health and Human Services Secretary Ka...

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A Reasonable Celebration

Roy Speckhardt | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: National Day of Prayer, Pete Stark, National Day of Reason, Food Bank, Reason, Blood Drive, Politics News
Roy Speckhardt

On the National Day of Reason religious people of all sorts join non-believers in recognizing that a government of the people should use reason as the basis for creating and enforcing its laws and regulations.

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Nonprofit Hospitals Sued 40,000 Patients Over Unpaid Bills

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Lori Swanson, Debt, Debt Collectors, Video, Pete Stark, Uninsured, Minnesota, Health Care Costs, Debt Collection, Economy, Al Franken, Hospitals, Jobs, Health Insurance, Business, Health Care, Healthcare, North Carolina, Business News

Hospitals in North Carolina are taking debt-collection to a whole new level. Certain North Carolina hospitals sued 40,000 patients for unpaid bill...

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Jeffrey Young

Debt Collector May Face Federal Investigation For 'Abusive' Hospital Tactics

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Debt, Congress, Minnesota, Health Care Costs, Economy, Jobs, Health Insurance, Business, Debt Collectors, Video, Pete Stark, Uninsured, Hospitals, Health Care, Healthcare, Business News

A debt-collection agency that reportedly worked to obtain money owed by patients inside U.S. hospitals should be investigated by federal authorities, ...

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Ryan Grim

House Bill On Moms Would Take Romney 'At His Most Recent Word'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A handful of House Democrats, encouraged by the recent bipartisan agreement that stay-at-home moms should be considered just as hard wor...

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Largest-Ever Gathering Of Atheists Set To Rally On National Mall

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: District of Columbia, True Reason, Atheist Rally, Reason Christianity, Eddie Izzard, Jessica Ahlquist, Video, Bad Religion, Pete Stark, Reason Rally, Adam Savage, Dc Around Town, Atheists, Richard Dawkins, Adam Savage Atheist, DC News

WASHINGTON -- The atheists are coming! So are the non-atheists. Saturday's "Reason Rally," billed as the "largest gathering of the secular movement...

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Four Years Frozen in ICE

Ahilan Arulanantham | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Immigration, Ice, Mental Disability, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Mental Illness, Pete Stark, Immigrant Detention, Ensuring Mental Competence in Immigration Proceedings Act, Janet Napolitano, Dick Durbin, Los Angeles News
Ahilan Arulanantham

Like thousands of other people in 2006, Jose Franco was detained by immigration authorities. Most detainees are either deported to their country of origin or released. But this case took a different route.

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The Last Veto

Daniel Matamala | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Atheists, Religion in Politics, Atheism, Wynne LeGrow, Pete Stark, Politics News
Daniel Matamala

Think about a democracy in which a religious minority represents 15% of the population but is virtually excluded from the exercise of power. We are not talking about oppressed Christians in some Muslim country. We are talking about non-religious persons in the USA.

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Attention Occupy Wall Street: Enact a Financial Speculation Tax

Anand Reddi | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Pete Stark, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Rep. Peter Defazio, Financial Speculation Tax, Peter DeFazio, Tom Harkin, Occupy Wall Street, Senator Tom Harkin, Business News
Anand Reddi

Last week, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Representative Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) renewed efforts to enact a financial speculation tax. The Occupy movements across the United States should demand this initiative.

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Lucia Graves

House Reps Demand End To Crackdown On Pot Clinics

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.30.2011

Read More: Dana Rohrabacher, White House, California Marijuana Crackdown, Pete Stark, Lynn Woolsey, Marijuana, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana Legalization, Norml, Barbara Lee, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Members of Congress are calling on the Obama administration to end the federal crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in California, citing...

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Does the Religious Right Really Care about Children?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: All Children Matter, Social Security Benefits, Culture Wars, Family Research Council, Anti-Gay, Stanley Kurtz, Medical Decision-Making, Same-Sex Marriage, Center for American Progress, Movement Advancement Project, Pete Stark, Insurance, Family Equality Council, Family Law, Two Million Children, Second-Parent Adoption, Religious Right, Report, Kirsten Gillibrand, LGBT Families, Every Child Deserves a Family, Gay Voices News
Nathaniel Frank

In anointing themselves the champions of "family values" and protectors of vulnerable children, religious conservatives have had little to say when confronted with the undeniable existence of actual gay families -- particularly kids with LGBT parents.

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We the People... Want to Price Carbon

Steve Valk | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: White House, Carbon Tax, We the People, Keystone XL Pipeline, Solyndra, Environment, Climate Change, Online Petitions, Pete Stark, Marijuana Legalization, Green News
Steve Valk

When the White House recently launched their "We The People" petition site, I thought I'd give it a shot. I figured if they're asking for our opinion, they might just listen.

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Lucia Graves

Solyndra Files For Bankruptcy, Company Lobbyist 'Grateful' For Experience In Government Sales

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Video, Pete Stark, Cliff Stearns, Solar Panels, Victoria Sanville, 112th Congress, Obama Administration, Banks, Federal Subsidies, Solyndra, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Solar Power, Green News

WASHINGTON -- As Solyndra Inc. made its bankruptcy filing official on Tuesday afternoon, Victoria Sanville, a prominent lobbyist who helped secure hun...

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Michael McAuliff

Calif. 'Super Congress' Member Claims Tax Breaks On 'Principal' Home -- In Maryland

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: Pete Stark, Melanie Sloan, Peter Visclosky, Pete Visclosky Tax Break, Eliot Engel, Pete Visclosky, Ethics, Rep. Peter Visclosky, 112th Congress, Peter Visclosky Tax Break, Xavier Becerra, Xavier Becerra Tax Break, Rep. Xavier Becerra, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A pair of congressmen representing districts far from Washington -- including one member of the new debt-cutting 'Super Congress' -- hav...

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Jason Cherkis

Feds Finally Address LGBTQ Homeless Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Cherkis | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Bush Administration, Louisiana, Department of Health and Human Services, Pete Stark, Gay Rights, Lgbtq, Homelessness, John Kerry, President Obama, Child-Welfare Reform, Bryan Samuels, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Jonathan had spent nearly a decade in Louisiana's child welfare system. The safest places, the gay teen discovered, were the moldy homes...

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Amanda Terkel

LGBT Adoption Bill Picks Up GOP Cosponsor

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Lgbt, Gay Rights, Pete Stark, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Every Child Deserves a Family Act, Nancy Pelosi, LGBT Rights, LGBT Adoption, Gay Adoption, Politics News

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) has signed on as the first Republican supporter of a bill outlawing discrimination against same-sex...

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More Rights Proposed For Colorado’s Pot-Businesses

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Jared Polis, Pot Business, Denver Pot Dispensaries, Polis Pot Bills, Colorado Pot Dispensaries, Pete Stark, Denver News, Polis Stark Frank Pot Bills, Barney Frank, Colorado Medical Marijuana, Colorado Mmj, Medical Marijuana, Mmj, Pot DIspensaries, Video, Denver News

Lead by Colorado U.S. Representative Jared Polis, along with a unified coalition of bipartisan congressional support, three new bills to improve acces...

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Celebrating Reason on the National Day of Prayer

Rep. Pete Stark | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: National Day of Prayer, Religion and Politics, Day of Reason, Pete Stark, Separation of Church and State, Church and State, Politics News
Rep. Pete Stark

Our nation faces many serious problems, here at home and abroad. Although the gravity of these issues may drive many to prayer, the way we will actually solve them is through the application of reason.

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Amanda Terkel

Same-Sex Adoption Bill Introduced

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Gay Families, Gay Rights, Pete Stark, Same-Sex Adoption, Same-Sex Families, Every Child Deserves a Family Act, LGBT Rights, LGBT Adoption, Kirsten Gillibrand, Gay Parents, Gay Adoption, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As several states have moved to make it harder for same-sex families to adopt children or become foster parents, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cali...

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Fighting To Give Foster Children The Support They Deserve

Daniel Heimpel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dan Hatcher, Pete Stark, Fostering Media Connections, Child Welfare, Aging Out, First Star, Children's Advocacy Institute, Daniel Heimpel, Foster Care, Foster Children, Children, Impact News
Daniel Heimpel

The chain of responsibility for children in the foster care system culminates with us, and by virtue of our Democratic process, those who represent us.

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