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FREMONT -- In his first town meeting since being re-elected in November, Democratic Rep. Pete Stark wasted no time in decrying the partisan enviroment that prevails over Congress. Stark said that House Speaker Dennis Hastert has made it clear that Democrats would not be invited to help craft legislation. "It makes our job one of a constant critic," he said. About 50 people came to Saturday morning's meeting at the Senior Center, to hear what the Fremont Democrat had to say about the upcoming congressional session. It will be Stark's 17th term in the House, since first being elected in...

Last night, the U.S. House shot down the military draft bill proposed by Democrats. The purpose of the bill was to scare college kids into voting for John Kerry. George Bush has never been in favor of the draft. But don't take my word for it. Check out the U.S. House's official website at the link below to see who sponsored the bill to reinstate the military draft. In the end, the sponsor of the bill to reinstate the draft, Charlie Rangel (D), didn't even vote for his own bill. The two "yea" votes were Democrats. The other sponsors of...

On September 2, eleven members of Congress, led by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), submitted an official 'Dear Colleague' letter to President Bush calling on the dismissal and firing of Lt. Gen. William Boykin as Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence for his anti-Muslim remarks made while in official military uniform. The letter reads, in part: "One such step…is for you to dismiss Lt. Gen. William Boykin as the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence. We were appalled when we learned of the comments General Boykin had made invoking religion in an inflammatory and inappropriate way while in uniform. Many of...

No apologies here because of a news story about a 16-term congressman that got national coverage – I'm glad it did since it was because of me, it became newsworthy and got media play! Between May 6 and 12, you heard about a California congressman who cussed out a constituent, who's also a staff sergeant in the California Army National Guard. The story started on KSFO radio in San Francisco, was then heard on Rush Limbaugh's syndicated radio program, seen on San Francisco area NBC-TV news and covered in local newspapers. Then it was reported on stations across the country,...

http://www.rollcall.com/news/ Heard on the Hill Note to Self — Get Unlisted Phone Number May 11, 2004 Constituents of Rep. Pete Stark (D-Calif.) better be careful when they criticize the combative 16-term lawmaker.

WASHINGTON  — When Daniel Dow of California faxed a protest letter to his congressman over his vote last week against a House resolution condemning the abuse of Iraqi prisoners, he expected to get a form letter a month later. "Dan, this is Congressman Pete Stark, and I just got your fax. And you don't know what you're talking about. So if you care about enlisted people, you wouldn't have voted for that thing either. But probably somebody put you up to this, and I'm not sure who it was, but I doubt if you could spell half the words in the letter, and...

Stark Raving Mad By Joel Mowbray FrontPageMagazine.com | May 10, 2004 When Daniel Dow returned home Thursday evening, he noticed he had a voice mail message. To his great surprise, it was left by his Congressman, Pete Stark (D-CA), in response to a fax he had sent in an hour earlier. But to Dow’s even greater surprise, the message was a smarmy smear, one in which Congressman Stark essentially called him stupid and implied that the enlisted man, who had just returned from Kosovo, did not care about enlisted men and women. And now compounding the Congressman’s callousness, he has...

On Friday we wondered why 49 mostly left-wing Democrats had voted against a House resolution deploring the abuse of Iraqi prisoners and also supporting the "courageous and honorable members of the Armed Forces." Rep. Pete Stark of Fremont, Calif. (midway between Oakland and San Jose), has offered an answer of sorts. KSFO, a San Francisco talk radio station, has printed a letter Stark received from a constituent, Daniel Dow, who objected to Stark's vote: I urge you to stop your contemptuous display of bitter partisanship and your politicization of this War. Your actions are very divisive and destructive to the...

California Congressman Pete Stark CURSES Soldier for Writing His Congressman a Letter. Leaves Insulting and Cursing Voicemail on Soldier's Cell Phone Voicemail  NBC TV News article Sunday, May 9th  Saturday, May 8th Oakland Tribune:   Read the Constituent’s Letter that Pissed off the Congressman   .WAV format of Stark’s Verbal Abusive Voicemail   Hear the angry voicemail from Pete Stark with Rush Limbaugh's comments:   See Saturday’s article in the Fremont ARGUS:  

A man who wrote to U.S. Rep. Pete Stark criticizing his Thursday vote against a resolution on abuse of Iraqi prisoners got a personal reply within the hour -- voice mail from Stark inviting him to explain why he thinks he's "such a great, goddamn hero." "I think I got the point across," Stark, D-Fremont, said Friday after the voice-mail message had been posted online and become the topic of heated local talk radio. Syndicated host Rush Limbaugh played it nationwide later Friday. "I probably would've left out the blasphemy ... it was a poor choice of words," added Stark,...

A listener wrote a letter to Congressman Pete Stark, D-Fremont: Pete Stark House of Representatives 239 Cannon HOB Washington D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Stark, I am appalled that you voted against today's House Resolution 627, Roll Number 150. This measure would have shown publicly that you condemn the abuse of the prisoners in Iraq while simultaneously commend the service of the fine men and women who are serving in Iraq that bring honor to the uniform that they wear and to the Nation that they serve. There are many Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coastguardmen from your 13th Congressional District...

I heard this on KSFO this morning. They have played the recording at least 3 times already. Can anyone fill in the details? An active military constituent wrote Pete Stark asking about his recent NO vote on the congressional resolution of yesterday. Congressman Pete Stark (D) called back and left the voice mail belittling the person and using foul language. Sussman and Morgan, the hosts, are going to get the recording to Rush this morning. Don’t miss the rest of the KSFO, 560AM on the dial, morning program. Maybe someone will have the capability to make a .wav file of...

A listener wrote a letter to Congressman Pete Stark, D-Fremont: Pete Stark House of Representatives 239 Cannon HOB Washington D.C. 20515 Dear Mr. Stark, I am appalled that you voted against today's House Resolution 627, Roll Number 150. This measure would have shown publicly that you condemn the abuse of the prisoners in Iraq while simultaneously commend the service of the fine men and women who are serving in Iraq that bring honor to the uniform that they wear and to the Nation that they serve. There are many Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, Airmen and Coastguardmen from your 13th Congressional District...

<p>Washington -- His voice trembling nearly to tears, Bakersfield Republican Bill Thomas -- one of the most acerbic and imperious members of Congress -- made an extraordinary apology on the House floor Wednesday for what he called his "just plain stupid" decision to ask Capitol Hill police to eject Democrats from a meeting room Friday.</p>

REP. FORTNEY “Pete” Stark, D-Calif., is the foul-mouthed poster boy for Liberal Double Standards. There he was on Capitol Hill last week, sounding more like Eminem than an eminent lawmaker, hurling epithets such as “fruitcake” and “c—ks——r” at Republicans during a mark-up session on pension funds legislation of all things. Most of the mainstream media coverage of the fracas has focused on the handling of the meeting by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, who is accused by Democrats of summoning Capitol Hill police to the scene in order to prevent the minority from meeting in a committee...

GOP Colleagues Hope Thomas Will Express Sorrow About Partisan FurorBy David Espo The Associated PressPublished: Jul 23, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans hope GOP Rep. Bill Thomas demonstrates contrition when he steps before the House to speak about last week's partisan furor over a committee hearing. Democrats want a full-throated apology from one of the most powerful men in Congress. Whatever he does, several Republicans said the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee intended to speak on the House floor on Wednesday, offering his own version of events that transformed last Friday's routine meeting of the panel into...

<p>THERE WAS a time when Democrats were in control of the House and Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, was well regarded for his command of health and tax issues.</p> <p>Today, the Republicans rule the House and Stark is mostly known as a back bencher who can't control his tongue.</p>

<p>The House of Representatives, as everyone knows, is that place where the Members address each other as "the Gentlemen from California" or "the Gentlelady from Connecticut." Alas, like much else in America now, these standards of dignified human discourse are under pressure, as reflected in the following colloquy Friday before the Ways and Means Committee.</p>

One of the benefits of living today is having access to so much information. And one of the advantages of this information is learning that, in many respects, the people we elect to govern aren’t any better than most of us. Indeed, I could be coaxed into contending that a lot of them are worse. Some of those characters, even with their taxpayer-funded publicity machines turning out sanitized versions of their records, have shown themselves to be dumber than, pettier than, wickeder than and crookeder than the average American. Not to mention nastier than, which brings us to the Honorable...

<p>WASHINGTON — Democrats continue to question the leadership of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (search), but some corners are wondering whether the outrage should focus on Democratic Rep. Pete Stark (search), a central figure in last week's heated argument.</p> <p>The facts are still in dispute about what happened in last Friday's committee meeting to mark up pension funds legislation. At the time, Democrats objected to Thomas, R-Calif., whisking through approval by voice vote on a bill Democrats have said they had not had a chance to review. The standoff ended with Thomas calling the police to remove the Democrats from the committee library and Democrats storming to the House floor to offer a resolution disapproving of Thomas' actions.</p>

"You are a little fruitcake. You are a little fruitcake. I said you are a fruitcake." – Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark, D-Fremont, Calif. I've had it with Pete Stark. He has made intemperate remarks before – on the floor of the House of Representatives and off it – but the fruitcake reference was just too much. Stark, who happens to be my congressman, has not, to be sure, been the most obstreperous representative ever seen in the Capitol. He has a long, long way to go to match the aggression of Preston Brooks of South Carolina, who in 1856 paid...

When Rep. Scott McInnis (R-Colo.) had told Stark (Rep. Fortney "Pete" Stark (D., Calif.) to "shut up" during the committee meeting, Stark denounced him as "a little wimp. Come on, come over here and make me, I dare you. . . . You little fruitcake. You little fruitcake. I said you are a fruitcake."

Washington, DC, January 20, 2004 - "This Congress will come to order and the members - especially the Democrats - will sit down and shut up!" House Speaker Dennis Hastert seemed stunned at the sound of his own words, even as they came tumbling out of his mouth. But he knew there was no turning back now. He was about to introduce the President of the United States to a joint session of Congress to deliver this year's State of the Union Address, and such language was the only recourse left to him. "Mr. Speaker - you horse's patoot! -...

<p>Simmering tensions in the U.S. House turned into a heated debate when Democrats tried but failed to pass a resolution reprimanding a senior Republican committee chairman for calling Capitol Police to try to quell a Democratic outburst during a hearing.</p>

Stark casts surprise vote backing Iraq war money By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON BUREAU > WASHINGTON -- Just when you think you've got Pete Stark figured out, the Fremont congressman votes in favor of $80 billion in war spending. This is the same Stark who accused President Bush of igniting war to divert attention from the economy. Who openly declared, "I don't trust this president," on the House floor. Who voted against a "support the troops" resolution because, he said, he couldn't stomach language praising Bush for his foreign-policy decisions. But Thursday's vote wasn't about Bush, Stark said. "Once you're at...

Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., likens President Bush to a terrorist and genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war ... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism," Stark, a longtime appeasement activist and one of the most left-wing Democrats in Congress, told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. Responding to reports that U.S. forces planned to fire as many as 3,000 laser- and satellite-guided missiles on Iraq in the first...

A California congressman is lashing out against President Bush, likening the administration's policy toward Iraq to "extreme terrorism." "I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war ... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism," Democrat Pete Stark told the San Francisco Chronicle. The remark comes a day after the 1960s-era peace activist told the Oakland Tribune that if the president initiates the conflict, "it's blood on Bush's hands." Stark's criticism comes on the heels of...

<p>Washington -- As war apparently draws nearer, anti-war members of Congress led by Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland outlined their last-ditch bid on Wednesday to reopen debate on whether the United States should attack Iraq.</p> <p>Lee's vehicle, the latest in a host of anti-war resolutions that the leadership of both houses has refused to take up, is the introduction of a nonbinding resolution that would put the House on record as opposing so-called wars of pre-emption.</p>

I guess I'm bored at work.... Anyway some of my fav. all time are Dana Rohrabacher (riot--a mini b1 Bob) Bob Dornan(nobody does crazy catholic conservative like B1), Alan Simpson (Dick Cheney's bud--just a decent guy) and Fred Thompson (despite blowing the Clinton investigation-- he has a helluva presence, seems like a good old boy). some of the Worst= Tom Daschle is the anti-christ. Pat Leahy, Charles Schumer and Hillary are a troica of treason. Pete Stark is an obscure hateful jackoff. Anybody else have best/worsts... let em Fly!!

Bush signs bill reaffirming reference to God in pledge Thursday, November 14, 2002 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- President Bush signed into law yesterday a bill reaffirming -- with a slap at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals -- references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance and national motto.Bush signed the legislation without comment. It reinforces support for the words "under God" in the pledge, and for "In God we trust" as the national motto. The measure was approved unanimously in the Senate and drew just five no votes in the House. Congress rushed to act after the federal...

I know this is not the biggest piece of news for the day, but I heard this live and could not let it pass unremarked upon. Ronn Owens, a moderate Dem who generally supports the President, has the big-rating morning talk show on KGO 810 AM in San Francisco. He had the despicable Socialist Congressman (masquerading as a Democrat) Pete Stark on this morning. As I tuned in, I heard Ronn ask him about Iraq and the President. I was driving, but this is the gist of the conversation: Ronn: (asks about Stark's opposition to the action against Saddam and...

Mr. STARK. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 2\1/2\ minutes. Mr. Chairman, there are some of us who remember this world in the 1930s, when Hitler suspended the Bundestag to promulgate conservative ideology and not let people speak. It is a shame that the Republicans in the House, Mr. Chairman, have taken up that same ideology and are denying a chance for debate and open discussion of a budget. It does smack of fascism; and it is too bad, because the American people will recognize that and understand that in a free economy, and in a free country that created programs...