Jim Costa

I appreciate your support for this project in this year's bill and ask that you provide the remaining funds necessary in fiscal year 2025 to complete the general re-evaluation report.

We must begin a new feasibility study so the Corps of Engineers can investigate flood risk management needs as well as potential modifications to improve the dam's safety.

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.

I urge the committee to support the report language that provides up to $30 million for the repair in Reclamation canals for fiscal year 2025.

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.

food is a national security issue.

I think President Putin is a war criminal for all the things that he's done, and I think Russia today is a syndicate masquerading or pretending to be a country run by a mob boss.

This bipartisan bill changes the adjusted gross income for USDA disaster programs, including exempting the $900,000 AGI limitation.

This bipartisan bill would create a standalone program for alternative manure management conservation practices for dairy producers, and support additional practices to help reduce methane efforts.

This unprovoked attack by a war criminal, a war criminal named Putin, and anyone who associates with Putin or takes his side simply, I think, as the President said is ignoring our democratic responsibilities as the leader of the free world.

Our own very security is being undermined because of our inability to come together on what seems to me common sense.

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…

I wish my constituents back home in the 21st Congressional District and Americans throughout the country a very happy new year. May it bring us good tidings and health, and may the Congress come together to solve some of the critical…

It is always good to be here in the committee with an opportunity to share my thoughts on projects that I think are important to the people of the 21st Congressional District and the San Joaquin Valley.

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…

I appreciate this Committee for sticking to the traditional biennial WRDA process and committing to work in a bipartisan manner.

Simply raising Pine Flat Dam by twelve feet would provide over 120,000 acre-feet of additional storage.

Food is a national security issue. It really is.

These water projects are a key essential foundation to ensuring that water supply.

Water supply reliability is a critical factor in our region's health and economic well-being.

I think we should expand FIRO for more reservoirs, including Bureau of Reclamation projects around the country.

We like to say that we grow food that feeds the world, and that we have a saying that where water flows, food grows.

I am seeking to authorize both countries in my district, Fresno and Tulare, as new geographic areas eligible for Environmental Infrastructure assistance.

I support efforts to enlarge Eastman Lake, which is located in Madera County.