Jim Costa: “I am very worried that this policy signals that the Administration is more focused on softening the blow for farmers.”

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

Frankly, you know, that trend with Russia in the lead. And I begin referring to my colleagues and to my friends in Europe as Russia today being a syndicate masquerading as a country with a mob boss called Putin, because he is a war…

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.

I think we all pray that we can come together on a farm bill before the end of the year.