Jim Costa: “I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to also comment on the need to make a modest and popular expansion…”

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

I think that China is watching what we're doing in Ukraine just as Russia is trying to determine what is the resolve of the United States.

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.