{"id":681488,"date":"2010-03-03T16:01:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70406"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:09:46","slug":"pete-stark-to-chair-house-ways-and-means-committee-replacing-rangel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681488","title":{"rendered":"Pete Stark to Chair House Ways and Means Committee, Replacing Rangel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) (photo: -Andrew- via Flickr)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

This is very good news<\/a>, if true. Republicans frequently gun for Pete Stark because he’s fearless and he doesn’t back down from a fight. I was concerned that House Democrats would shy away from elevating Stark to such a powerful position, but Pelosi did indeed select him to replace Charlie Rangel as the head of the panel. And since John Boehner is objecting to the temporary nature<\/a> of Rangel stepping down, Stark may get the seat permanently.<\/p>\n

Here’s who Pete Stark is:<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, a source on Capitol Hill who used to work in Representative Pete Stark’s office told me a great anecdote about Representative Stark.<\/p>\n

One day, a lobbyist from a large energy company entered the lobby of Representative Stark’s office. When he heard who was in the lobby, Representative Stark yelled from another room “get the f*ck out of here!” When the lobbyist laughed a bit and didn’t leave, Representative Stark came into the lobby and yelled again “no, get the f*ck out of here!” The lobbyist then left.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stark has chaired the Health Policy Subcommittee at Ways and Means, and he introduced a bill<\/a> last year that would essentially provide Medicare to everyone. He’s a good ally at Ways and Means.<\/p>\n

Tags: Charlie Rangel<\/a>, House Ways and Means Committee<\/a>, Pete Stark<\/a>, progressives<\/a><\/p>\n

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Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) (photo: -Andrew- via Flickr) This is very good news, if true. Republicans frequently gun for Pete Stark because he’s fearless and he doesn’t back down from a fight. I was concerned that House Democrats would shy away from elevating Stark to such a powerful position, but Pelosi did indeed select him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2RhK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782989,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681488\/revisions\/782989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}