Jim Costa: “I think that the Endangered Species Act is an important law in our Nation.”

I thank the ranking member and the chair for this effort on the legislation. Over the last 2 weeks, we have seen the devastation that the Los Angeles fires have caused: the lives, the housing, and the commercial structures that have been…

I urge the committee to support the report language that provides up to $30 million for the repair in Reclamation canals for fiscal year 2025.

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

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…