Jim Costa: “The fact that you have taken the time to come out there in your early months, not only to visit our parks but to meet…”

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…

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

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.

The House has lost a giant and a trailblazer for justice and a good friend for so many of us, Sheila Jackson Lee, whom we honor here today and remember. Born in Queens, New York, she was among the first women to graduate from Yale, and she…