Jim Costa: “As they say, all politics are local, and water, of course, to California is an absolutely critical issue.”

I thank my colleague for organizing this Special Order, appropriately so, because this is the conclusion of the inauguration efforts of this week. On January 6, 2021, I expressed numerous times to my constituents and to my colleagues that…

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 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.

It has been 112 days since Hamas' horrific attacks against Israel on October 7. It has also been 1 year and 11 months since Putin launched his brutal invasion against Ukraine. The world is on fire with conflict, and democratic countries…