Jim Costa: “Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It is great to be here with our Subcommittee, and we thank you for your leadership.”

The goals of the program are to restore and maintain endangered fish populations on the San Joaquin River and to reduce the adverse water supply impact on the Friant Division contractors.

I strongly oppose this rule that enables a reckless Republican budget resolution to go forward. Let me tell you why. Republicans claim to be lowering costs, but their plan, in my view, does just the opposite. Let me bring it all home. In…

I think President Putin is a war criminal for all the things that he's done, and I think Russia today is a syndicate masquerading or pretending to be a country run by a mob boss.

But let's be frank about it. Russia today is a syndicate, I think, that's masquerading as a nuclear--a nuclear syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin.