Jim Costa: “But we don't believe that we should take a disproportional hit.”

The challenges of coming together with local, state, and Federal policy to ensure that agriculture remains what it is, which is a national security issue.

Food is a national security issue.

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.

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…