Jim Costa

I take the responsibility to oversee USDA's response to these outbreaks nationwide very seriously in my role as Chairman of this Subcommittee.

The livestock and poultry farmers throughout America are facing difficult times for a number of reasons.

I would like to discuss the importance of wildfire awareness. No State knows more about how important the subject is than California. There is no longer a fire season in California. It suffers from fires, sadly, year-round resulting from…

It is with great pride that I rise today to congratulate Madera High School's robotics team for being crowned the world champions. They are the home of the Coyotes, and this hardworking group of 15 students from my district, otherwise…

An investment of 2 trillion dollars in America's infrastructure is on point.

I think one of the most important things we can do in this Congress would be a major, bipartisan infrastructure package.

We need the Feds to step up to the plate.

I think that one of the most important things that we can do in this Congress on a bipartisan effort would be a major infrastructure package.

We need to make sure we are ensuring the water security of our region 50, 100 years into the future.

I think we can agree that that is a dereliction of duty.

We should have made investments into our water systems 20 years ago, but the best thing we could be doing is making those investments today.

When we lose a dairy farm, we also lose the jobs and investment that the farm provides.

Dairy directly provides nearly one million U.S. jobs with an economic impact of over $200 billion nationwide.

Last year in a bipartisan effort, we decided to really take a closer look at the dairy title, and we made changes.

America's dairy industry is in crisis and today's hearing is just one part of this Subcommittee's continued effort to respond to the challenges facing dairy farmers across this country.

The Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture will now come to order.

All of us who represent various portions of American agriculture understand the importance of the dairy industry today and historically, and we know the challenges that the industry has been facing.

Today I rise to talk about America's healthcare system and the importance of protecting the Affordable Care Act. Residents in my home State of California benefited greatly from the ACA. When it became law in 2010, California was one of the…

Every March, we come together to honor trailblazing women who have come before us, who have made a difference throughout the history of our country and throughout the world, and those who continue to pave the way for the next generation…

I know, I am trying to take credit for it, since I got blamed for the drought. I think it is only fair. It is not working.

If we can't provide maximum allocation in an abundance in a big hydrological year as this year, then obviously we will never be able to come close to making allocation numbers.

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

Without the Drought Contingency Plan under current operational agreements, what would happen if Lake Mead goes into shortage conditions below 1,075 feet or 1,025 feet?

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We helped create NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not only to protect our European allies, but to protect our interests. For…

Soon, the Portuguese Caucus will be reintroducing legislation that is important for not only the United States, but for our ally Portugal. We will be introducing bipartisan legislation that will allow citizens of Portugal to be eligible…