2012 Press Releases
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01 Aug
PRESS RELEASE: Stark Gets CMS Commitment for New Cost Estimate to Protect Seniors from Identity Theft
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark garnered a commitment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to generate a new and rigorous estimate on the cost to Medicare of removing Social Security Numbers (SSN) from beneficiary identification. Use of SSNs on Medicare ID cards and for Medicare billing processes puts seniors and people with disabilities at risk of identity theft.
30 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark Announces $5 Million in Housing and Shelter Grants for Alameda County
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) announced nearly $5 million in grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing (HUD) and Urban Development to Alameda County. The money will help improve housing and economic opportunities for moderate-, low-, and very low-income individuals in Alameda County.
27 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark, Others Respond to Islamophobic Insinuations by Members of Congress
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) and other members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus responded to unfounded Islamophobic insinuations by several conservative Members of Congress.
25 Jul
NEWS: Stark Wins Best of Congress Working Families Award
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark was recognized by Working Mother Media and Corporate Voices for Working Families with the 2012 Best of Congress award. Stark was honored for his longstanding support for working families through legislation, advocacy, and by setting an example through the family-friendly policies promoted in his Congressional office. Stark and other 2012 winners will be featured in the August/September issue of Working Mother magazine and on WorkingMother.com.
24 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: CBO Report: GOP Health Reform Repeal Would Boost Deficit by $109 Billion
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark released the following statement in response to the latest health reform analyses published today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO’s analyses confirm that, if some Republican governors refuse to accept federal Medicaid funds, millions of the nation’s most vulnerable individuals who qualify for coverage will remain uninsured.
24 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark: Opening Statement on Medicare Physician Payments, Promoting High Quality Health Care
Press Releases: 2012
As we work to replace the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula with a better way of paying physicians, it is important we understand what’s happening in the private sector and learn how to incorporate that into an improved Medicare payment formula. I look forward to hearing the witnesses' ideas.
19 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark Announces $10.8 Million in Grants to Benefit East Bay Commuters
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark (CA-13) announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award two grants totaling $10.8 million to improve BART’s regional real-time transit information at intermodal BART stations and AC Transit’s fare box system replacement project.
19 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark, Ways and Means Democrats Introduce The Bring Jobs Home Act
Press Releases: 2012
Ways and Means Committee Democrats today introduced legislation to provide tax credits to businesses that brings jobs and business operations back to America from another country. The Bring Jobs Home Act, H.R. 6152, provides a 20 percent tax credit for businesses that “insource” jobs back to the United States and is paid for by closing tax loopholes for companies that “outsource” jobs overseas and treat distributions of debt securities in a tax-free spin-off transaction in the same manner as distributions of cash or other property.
17 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark: American-Made Uniforms for American Olympians
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark (CA-13) and Rep. Michael Michaud (ME-2), led a bipartisan coalition of 59 Members of Congress in calling on the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) to ensure that Team USA's uniforms are made in the United States, not in factories overseas. The American company Ralph Lauren designed Team USA's uniforms for the 2012 Summer Olympics, yet had them manufactured in China.
03 Jul
PRESS RELEASE: Stark, Local Labor & Business Leaders: Stop Outsourcing, Bring Jobs Home from Overseas
Press Releases: 2012
Today, Rep. Pete Stark joined with local business and labor leaders at Tri-Ced Community Recycling in Union City to highlight the need to stem the outsourcing of American jobs. Local leaders -- including Josie Camacho, Alameda Labor Council Executive Secretary Treasurer and Richard Valle, CEO, Tri-Ced and Alameda County Supervisor -- are calling on Congress to pass the Bring Jobs Home Act, H.R. 5542. Rep. Stark is a co-sponsor of the legislation, which would change our tax system to encourage businesses to keep jobs at home instead of sending them abroad.
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