Jim Costa: “Has TASC been effective in breaking down technical food or animal restrictions?”

I rise today to tell an inconvenient truth about what happened to educational funding that Congress appropriated that was to go to our schools. On June 30, just 1 day before $7 billion of educational funding was supposed to be delivered to…

I rise to honor Joel Nelson, a proud son of the San Joaquin Valley who served 37 years as the head of California Citrus Mutual. Mr. Speaker, you should understand that California produces 80 percent of all the citrus consumed in the United…

I commend the hard work and the efforts and the passion that Representative Takano, the ranking member on the committee and previous chair, has given to this issue. The hard work finally has paid off, and for that we thank him. For far too…

Much has been said about the challenges we face at the border and immigration in America. We must fix this broken immigration system. We had an opportunity in 2013, and Republicans and Democrats must come together to protect our border, to…