Jim Costa

This week is National Crime Victims' Rights Week; therefore, it is appropriate that we raise the awareness of survivors' challenges and the advocates who help rebuild their lives. In the face of a victim's trauma, there are countless…

I think the notion of trying to create further transparency is meritorious.

The best science available is never a stationary place.

As a cochairman of the Crime Victims Caucus, along with our good friend and colleague Congressman Ted Poe, our caucus wants to join in this effort to say ``no more.'' The Crime Victims Caucus is active in a host of different areas, and…

This water issue is critical. If you could add your voice, I would be grateful.

The situation is quickly deteriorating into a humanitarian crisis.

I want to switch over here, because I don't have a lot of time.

Why would the Administration be proposing dramatic cuts in self-help housing?

I am terribly worried about this.

Letter from the Diocese of Fresno to President Obama

On this day, marking the birthday of Caesar Chavez, as Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, I join my brother bishops and other Californians of good will to exercise restraint in the use of water as an expression of solidarity with…

The lack of water is impacting everyone: farmers, ranchers, dairymen, their employees, faith communities, the businesses that serve them.

I find it laughable that the most radically anti-environment House majority in history is now trying to justify their contempt for this administration and for renewable energy by crying 'fowl' over impacts to migratory birds.

As for today, the only things on a 'collision course' are the Republican's far-fetched fantasies and reality.

We are, yet again, wasting valuable time, resources, and energy on another political conspiracy theory conjured up in Republican imaginations.

I just think that until we can tell people up here definitively, if we reach a cost-sharing arrangement, that we can begin construction next year or in 18 months, nobody is believing us.

Well, there has to be a cost sharing. I voted for the Valadao legislation.

But does the Governor understand that we have a broken water system?

The price of food will get to a point that maybe people will wake up.

Today, I am calling on you, the Members of Congress gathered here today, to provide a solution to the man-made drought that is crippling my community.

We must act and we must act now to resolve this problem, and we must do it in a bipartisan fashion.

I am angry that we have failed to capture the water that lies available to us in times of plenty.

I voted for all of those bills.

This is not about political points. It is about people who could lose their jobs in the drought. It is about the dairy producer who might soon have to consider selling the dairy their grandfather started. It is about farmworkers who might…

I want to thank the ranking member of the subcommittee for giving me an opportunity to speak on this measure. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of this bill despite my reservations about the bill's prospects in the Senate. Over the…