Jim Costa actually said...

"Understanding the true costs and benefits of our Title I programs will help us develop a better farm bill moving forward."

"Should the three-legged stool of direct payments, the countercyclical program, and marketing loan assistance be updated to reflect the new trends in prices?"

"And it seems what is lacking to me is how we can agree on a bipartisan fashion on how we obtain that goal."

"I am not so sure that we ever truly are going to be independent, but certainly everybody believes that we ought to reduce our dependency on foreign sources."