Jim Costa actually said...

opening statement

I am compelled to underline the comments that Chairman Johnson has made, my friend, about the bipartisan cooperation on this Subcommittee.

we want to do what we can as Members of the Committee, you all, and certainly as Americans, to try to arrest the potential decline of rural ...

I am committed as a Representative of a rural district that struggles in-part because of the potential for these types of projects is stifle...