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Extensions of Remarks E71 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS January 20, 1999 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð Extensions of Remarks E71 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS A STARK ASSESSMENT: U.S. REP- The World spoke with Stark in early Octo- ues implied by the UU Principles, especially RESENTATIVE PETE STARK ber, as rumors of the possible impeachment the principle about equity and compassion in SPEAKS OUT ON HEALTHCARE of a president swirled around the capital. social relations? But aside from a few pro forma remarks PS: If you assume we have some obligation AND WELFARE REFORM about the presidential woes (``His behavior is to help those who can't help themselves, if despicable, but nothing in it rises to the that's a role of society, then supporters of HON. JOHN LEWIS level of impeachment''), our conversation the welfare reform bill trample on those val- OF GEORGIA mainly stuck to healthcare and welfare, the ues. ``I'm not sure that's the government's IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES areas where Stark has made his mark in gov- job,'' they would say. ``It's the church's job ernment. or it's your job. Just don't take my money. Tuesday, January 19, 1999 World: You have strong feelings about the I give my cleaning lady food scraps for her Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I insert welfare reform bill. Do the specifics of the family and my castaway clothes to dress her the following for printing in the RECORD: bill imply a particular theory of poverty? children. I put money in the poor box. What PS: They imply that if you're poor, it's more do you want?'' [From the World, Jan.±Feb. 1999] your fault, and if I'm not poor, it's because The bill we reported out, the president's (By David Reich) I belong to the right religion or have the bill, was motivated by the belief that paying When President Clinton signed the Per- right genes. That the poor are poor by money to people on public assistance was, sonal Responsibility and Work Opportunity choice, and we ought not to have to worry one, squandering public funds and, two, pre- Reconciliation Act of 1996 more commonly about them. It's akin to how people felt venting us from lowering the taxes on the known as the welfare reform bill, US Rep. about lepers early in this century. overtaxed rich. I used to try and hammer at Fortney Pete Stark didn't make a secret of World: Does the welfare reform law also some of my colleagues, and occasionally, his displeasure. ``The president sold out chil- imply any thinking about women and their when I could show them they were harming dren to get reelected. He's no better than the role in the world? children, they would relent a little, or at Republicans,'' fumed Stark, a longtime uni- PS: Ronald Reagan for years defined wel- least they would blush. tarian Universalist whose voting record in fare cheat as a black woman in a white er- World: Did you shame anyone into chang- Congress regularly wins him 100 percent rat- mine cape driving a white El Dorado con- ing his or her vote or making some conces- ings from groups like the AFL±CIO and vertible and commonly seen in food check- sions on the language of the bill? Americans for Democratic Action. out lines using food stamps to buy caviar PS: We got a few concessions but not One of the Congress's resident experts on and filet mignon and champagne and then many. Allowing a young woman to complete health and welfare policy, the northern Cali- getting in her car and driving on to the next high school before she had to look for a job, fornia Democrat has earned a reputation for supermarket to load up again. And I want to because she'd be more productive with a high outspokenness, often showing a talent for tell you she was sighted by no less than 150 school educationÐyou could maybe shame colorful invective, not to say name-calling. of my constituents in various supermarkets them into technicalities like that. But be- First elected to the House as an anti-Viet- back in my district. They were all nuts. yond that they were convinced that if you nam War ``bomb-thrower`` (his term) in 1972, They were hallucinating. But they believed just got off the dole and went to work, you Stark has called Clinton healthcare guru Ira this garbage. would grow intoÐa Republican, I suppose. Magaziner ``a latter-day Rasputin'' and And then you've got the myth that, as one World: It's been pointed out often that House Speaker Newt Gingrich ``a messianic of my Republican neighbors put it, ``these many people who supported the bill believe, megalomaniac.'' When the American Medical welfare women are nothing but breeders''Ða as a matter of religious conviction, that Association lobbied Congress to raise Medi- different class of humanity. women should be at home raising kids, yet World: You raised the idea of belonging to care payments to physicians, Stark, who the bill doesn't apply this standard to poor ``the right religion.'' Do these views of poor chaired the Health Subcommittee of the women. Can the bill's supporters resolve that people, and poor women in particular, come powerful House Ways and Means Committee, apparent contradiction? out of people's religious training? PS: Yes, I hate to lay out for you what called them ``greedy troglodytes,'' PS: No, my sense of what makes a reac- you're obviously missing. The bill's support- unleashing a $600,000 AMA donation to tionary is that it's a person younger than ers would say that if a woman had been mar- Stark's next Republican opponent. me, a 40- or 50-year-old man who comes to re- ``I've gotten in a lot of trouble speaking ried and the family had stayed together as alize he isn't going to become vice president my mind,'' the congressman admits with a God intended, with a father around to bring of his firm. His kids aren't going to get into rueful smile. For all his outspokenness on home the bacon, then the mother could stay Stanford or Harvard or make the crew team. politics, Stark appears to have a droll sense home and do the household chores and raise His wife is not very attractive-looking. His of himself, and he tends to talk softly, his the children. They miss the fact that they sex life is gone, and he's run to flab and alco- voice often trailing off at the ends of phrases haven't divided the economic pie in such a hol. or sentences. World: So it's disappointment. manner that the father can make enough Back in the 1960s, as a 30-something banker PS: Yes. And when the expectations you've money to support mother and child. and nominal member of the Berkeley, Cali- been brought up with are not within your Now, I do think young children benefit fornia, Unitarian Universalist congregation, grasp, you look around for a scapegoat. ``It's grandly, beyond belief, by having a mother Stark upped his commitment to the UU these big-spending congressmen'' or ``It's in full-time attendance for at least the first movement after his minister asked him to these women who have children just to get four years of life. But given the reality that give financial advice to Berkeley's Starr my tax dollar. The reason I'm not rich is a single mother has to work, you have to King School for the Ministry. ``I think I was that I pay so much in taxes; the reason my move to the idea of reasonable care for that sandbagged,'' he theorizes. After a day of children don't respect me is that the moral mother's child. And by reasonable care I do poring over Starr King's books (``The place fabric has been torn apart by schools that not mean a day care worker on minimum was going broke,'' he says), he was invited by fail to teach religion.'' wage who's had four hours of instruction and their board chair to serve as the seminary's And then there's a group that I've learned doesn't know enough to wash his or her treasurer. ``I said, `Okay,' '' Stark recalls. He to call the modern-day Pharisees, people hands after changing diapers and before feed- said, `Then you have to join the board,' I from the right wing of the Republican party ing the kid. Or who's been hired without a said, `I don't know. I guess I could.' '' who have decided the laws of the temple are criminal check to screen out pedophiles. Be- The UUing of Pete Stark culminated at his the laws of the land. cause it's that bad. first board meeting, when the long-serving World: Then religion figures into it, after World: Did the welfare system as it existed board chair announced his resignation and all. before the 1996 bill need reform? Stark, to his astonishment, found himself PS: Oh, yeah, but to me that's a religion of PS: Sure. The Stark theoryÐwhich I used elected to take the old chair's place. ``There convenience. In my book those are people to peddle a thousand years ago, when I I was,'' he reminisces, his long, slim body with little intellect who listen to the Bible chaired the House Public Assistance Com- curled up in a wing chair in a corner of his on the radio when they're driving the tractor mitteeÐis that people have to be allowed to Capitol Hill office.
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