Floor Statements
108th Congress

October 2004

• 10/8/04 -- Floor Statement -- Intelligence Reform:
  Stark Votes No on GOP Intelligence Reform Bill, Supports Full Implemention of 9/11 Commission's Recommendations
• 10/7/04 -- Floor Statement -- Corporate Taxes:
  Stark Opposes GOP Corporate Tax Giveaway that Encourages US Companies to Move Jobs Overseas
• 10/05/04 -- Floor Statement -- Military Draft:
  Stark Votes Yes on the Universal Service Act

September 2004

• 9/30/04 -- Floor Statement -- Civil Rights:
  Stark Votes No on Proposed Constitutional Amendment Banning Same Sex Marriage
• 9/29/04 -- Floor Statement -- Gun Safety:
  Stark Votes No on GOP Bill Lifting Restriction on Assault Weapons and Cop Killer Bullets in the Nation's Capital
• 9/28/04 -- Floor Statement -- Hate Crimes:
  Stark Votes Yes on Motion to Include Strict Hate Crimes Bill in Final Defense Authorization to Ensure Passage this Year
• 9/23/04 -- Floor Statement -- Tax Cuts:
  Stark Votes Against $14 Billion in Corporate Tax Breaks While 9 Million Poorest Children are Left Behind
• 9/23/04 -- Floor Statement -- Judicial Review:
  Stark Votes Against Bill Stripping Courts of Authority to Rule on the Constitutionality of the Pledge of Allegiance
• 9/9/04 -- Floor Statement -- 9-11:
  Stark Statement on House Resolution Commemorating the Anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

July 2004

• 7/22/04 -- Floor Statement -- Civil Rights:
  Stark Votes No on GOP Bill to Trample the Constitutional Rights of Gay and Lesbian Americans
• 7/20/04 -- Floor Statement -- Stock Options Expensing:
  Stark Opposes Accounting Loophole that Allow Corporations to Inflate Stock Values, Line the Pockets of Millionaires
• 7/15/04 -- Floor Statment -- Foreign Aid:
  Stark Votes for Foreign Operations Bill Touting Funds for Global Aids Initiative, International Development
• 7/14/03 -- Floor Statement -- Trade:
  Stark Opposes Australian Free Trade Agreement for Barring Reimportation of Affordable Prescription Drugs

June 2004

• 6/24/04 -- Floor Statement -- Deficit Reduction:
  Stark Votes Against GOP Bill to Exempt New Tax Cuts from Spending Limits Intended to Reduce the Deficit
• 6/22/04 -- Floor Statement --Defense:
  Stark Opposes Wasteful and Bloated Defense Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2005
• 6/17/04 -- Floor Statement -- Environment:
  Stark Opposes 2005 Interior Appropriations Bill for Inadequately Funding Conservation and National Parks
• 6/17/04 -- Floor Statement -- Corporate Taxes:
  Stark Opposes GOP Corporate Tax Bill that Offshores American Jobs and Is Full of Special Interest Pork
• 6/3/04 -- Floor Statement -- Reemployment Accounts:
  Stark Opposes Ineffective Back to Work Incentive Act

May 2004

• 5/21/04 -- Floor Statement -- Child Tax Credit:
  Stark Supports A Real, Middle Class Child Tax Credit,Votes Against Another GOP Tax Cut for the Wealthy
• 5/20/04 -- Floor Statement -- Defense Authorization:
  Stark Opposes Wasteful and Irresponsible Defense Authorization Bill for 2005
• 5/19/04 -- Floor Statement -- Budget:
  Stark Opposes Dangerous and Fiscally Irresponsible Republican Budget for 2005
• 5/19/04 -- Floor Statement - Reproductive Choice:
  Stark Supports Amendment to Defense Authorization Bill Repealing Ban on Abortion for Women in the Military
• 5/18/04 -- Floor Statement -- Public Health:
  Stark Votes Against Draconian GOP Bill To Turn Health Care Professionals Into Border Patrol Officers
• 5/13/04 -- Floor Statement -- Taxes:
  Stark Votes 'No' to Unfair GOP 10%Tax Bill, Supports Democratic Plan for Real Middle-Class Tax Relief
• 5/12/04 -- Floor Statement -- Medicare Early Access Act:
  Stark Introduces Bill to Allow Uninsured Americans 55 and Older to Buy Affordable Health Coverage Through Medicare
• 5/12/04 -- Floor Statement -- Patients' Rights:
  Stark Votes Against Medical Malpractice Bill That Undermines Patients' Rights
• 5/6/04 -- Floor Statement -- Iran's Nuclear Program:
  Citing Distrust of Bush Foreign Policy, Stark Votes 'Present' on Resolution Condemning Iran's Nuclear Program
• 5/6/04 -- Floor Statement -- Prisoner Abuse in Iraq:
  Stark Condemns Abuse of Iraqi Prisoners, Votes 'No' on Resolution for Omitting Call for Congressional Investigation

April 2004

• 4/28/04 -- Floor Statement -- Marriage Penalty:
  Stark Opposes GOP Marriage Penalty Bill as Inadequate and Fiscally Irresponsible
• 4/21/04 -- Floor Statement -- Troop Support:
  Stark Votes for Guardman and Reservist Financial Relief Bill, Calls for More Support for Troops

March 2004

• 3/30/04 -- Floor Statement -- Military Recruiting:
  Stark Opposes Bill Barring Federal Funds to Colleges that Limit Recruiting Due to Military's Discrimination Against Gays and Lesbians
• 3/24/04 -- Floor Statement -- House GOP Budget:
  Stark Statement Opposing the House GOP Budget for Fiscal Year 2005
• 3/17/04 -- Floor Statement -- Iraq:
  Stark Opposes Resolution Commemorating Iraq War Anniversary for Failing to Honor Those Who Gave Their Lives
  
• 3/11/04 -- Floor Statement -- California Medicare Beneficiaries:
  Stark Statement Introducing Bill to Protect California Seniors From Being Forced Into HMOs

February 2004

• 2/26/04 -- Floor Statement -- Violence Against Women:
  Stark Opposes Anti-Choice Bill, Cites Need for Stonger Laws to Prevent and Punish Violence Against Women

January 2004

• 2/11/04 -- Floor Statement -- Social Security:
  Stark Votes for the Social Security Protection Act
• 1/21/04 -- Floor Statement -- Reproductive Choice:
  Commited to Protecting a Woman's Right to Choose, Stark Commemorates Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

December 2003

• Stark Statement on the Omnibus Appropriations Bill

November 2003

• Stark Statement Introducing the Medicare Chronic Kidney Disease Management Act
• Stark Statement on the Syria Accountability Act
• Stark Statement on the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act
• Stark Statement on the Energy Bill Conference Report

October 2003

• Stark Statement on FAA Conference Report
• Stark Statement on the $87 Billion Iraq Supplemental Appropriations Bill
• Stark Statement on the House-Senate Conference Report on the Partial Birth Abortion Act
• Stark Statement Introducing the Keeping Families Together Act

September 2003

• Stark Statement Introducing the Fair Balance Prescription Drug Advertising Act
• Stark Votes Against DC Appropriations Bill that Endangers Public Education

July 2003

• Stark Statement Introducing Fair Trade Coffee Resolution
• Stark Statement on the US-Chile Free Trade Agreement
• Stark Statement on the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
• Stark Statement Supporting Reimportation of Prescription Drugs
• Stark Statement Opposing Republican Effort to Dismantle Head Start
• Stark Statement on Interior Appropriations Bill
• Stark Statement on Foreign Relations Appropriations Bill
• Stark Statement on Anti-Education, Anti-Worker, Anti-Family Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill
• Stark Statement on HR 2658, Defense Appropriations for Fiscal-Year 2004

June 2003

• Stark Statement on House GOP Bill to Privatize Medicare
• Stark Statement on House GOP Proposal for Health Savings Accounts that Favor the Wealthy
• Stark Statement in Opposition to H Res 294
• Stark Statement on Association Health Plan Legislation
• Stark Statement on the Repeal of the Estate Tax
• Stark Statement in Opposition to the Class Action Fairnes Act
• Stark Statement Urging Republicans to Provide Working Families with Child Tax Credit
• Statement Opposing H.R. 760, the Partial-Birth Act
• Stark Statement Opposing H J Res 4, Desecration of the Flag
• Stark Introduces bill to Improve the Quality of Care for Seniors

May 2003

• Stark Statement on the Republican Tax Cut Plan
• Stark Statement Urging Congress to Do More to Help Long Term Unemployed Americans
• Stark Statement on FY 2004 Defense Authorization Bill
• Stark Statement Introducing the Medicare Out-of-Pocket Spending Limit Act
• Stark Statement Opposing GOP "Leave No Tree Behind" Bill
• Stark Statement Introducing Bill to Allow States to Draw on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Profits
• Stark Statement on House GOP Tax Cuts
• Stark Statement on HR 1261, Republican Workforce Reinvestment Bill

April 2003

• Stark Opposes Republican Education for Children with Disabilities Legislation
• Statement of Congressman Pete Stark On HR 6, the Energy Policy Act
• Stark Statement introducing the Flood Insurance Program Fairness Act
• Stark Statement on Gun Manufacturer’s Liability
• Stark Statement on Emergency Wartime Appropriations
• Stark Statement Introducing the Medicare Outpatient Co-payment Reduction Act
• Stark Introduces the Realizing the Spirit of IDEA Act
• Stark Introduces Medicare Mental Health Modernization Act

March 2003

• Stark Floor Statement On H.R. 1463, the Smallpox Emergency Personnel Protection Act
• Stark Statement On HR 1104, the Child Abduction Prevention Act
• Stark Statement on H. Res 153, Recognizing the Public Need for Fasting & Prayer
• Stark Statement On Republican Resolution Supporting the President, Troops
• Stark Statement on President Bush’s Budget
• Stark Statement in Opposition to the Medical Malpractice legislation
• Stark Statement on the Patient Safety & Quality Improvement Act
• Stark statement introducing the Democratic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill
• Stark statement introducing the MediKids Health Insurance Act

February 2003

• Stark statement on HR 534 the Human Cloning Prohibition Act
• Stark statement introducing the Paul D. Wellstone Mental Health Parity Act
• Stark statement on the Omnibus Appropriations Bill for Fiscal Year 2003
• Stark Statement on Personal Responsibility, Work and Family Promotion Act
• Stark Statement Supporting Bill to Strictly Limit Mandatory Overtime for Nurses
• Statement on Resolution Honoring Reagan's 92 Birthday
• Stark statement on resolution condemning UN for naming Libya Chair of the UN Human Rights Commission
• Stark statement on resolution commending Israel on their elections

January 2003

• Stark Statement Supporting H.R.163, "Universal National Service Act of 2003"
• Stark Statement in Support of the Democratic Plan to Extend Unemployment Benefits