Jim Costa: “I am not so sure that we ever truly are going to be independent, but certainly everybody believes that we ought to…”

I rise to honor Joel Nelson, a proud son of the San Joaquin Valley who served 37 years as the head of California Citrus Mutual. Mr. Speaker, you should understand that California produces 80 percent of all the citrus consumed in the United…

Right now, though, the CAP program is overextended and underfunded.

The challenges of coming together with local, state, and Federal policy to ensure that agriculture remains what it is, which is a national security issue.

I rise today to tell an inconvenient truth about what happened to educational funding that Congress appropriated that was to go to our schools. On June 30, just 1 day before $7 billion of educational funding was supposed to be delivered to…