Jim Costa

You have a difficult task today.

This regional approach among utilities working together is, I think, more viable than a top down approach.

As Yogi Berra once said, deja vu all over again.

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We all have our own ideas on how we should balance the budget, but missing in today's debate is a bipartisan approach to solve our Nation's fiscal problems. No one party has the answers. We can do this not through a Republican- nor a…

I don't still to this day understand why it is so difficult to provide this report.

It is important for this Subcommittee to look at programs that may be duplicative.

I represent the number one agricultural county in the nation, Fresno County, over $6 billion.

We ought to look at reauthorizing in the farm bill the work that the USDA Rural Development has done in California.

Rural America faces challenges. I am always a little bit hesitant to use the word unique because it is oftentimes an overused word.

I find it baffling at this point.

I think it is important for the Subcommittee to always exercise its role in appropriate oversight.

But when some of that science is very old, that is not a good thing, I don't think.

Under the category of lessons learned in 2009 and 2010, what are we doing?

Many of us are concerned that the marine spatial planning goes forward without having the up-to-date data necessary.

I thank the gentleman from Colorado for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the rule providing for the consideration of H.R. 1837. California's water system is broken. For too long, the San Joaquin Valley, which many of us…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise to discuss a matter of great importance to my constituents in the San Joaquin Valley, and that's the future of our water supply. More importantly, it's our Nation's food supply…

Production of food is going to be a critical issue to not only our nation, but the world.

I think you have a 2017 deadline. I think we need to look at moving that up, especially coinciding with the Bay Delta Conservation.

Despite the successes of these projects and others in the West, they have been under constant assault from those with extreme agendas.

I think you have to take another look.

I think agriculture and the urban water users have worked closer in the last several years.

It is how we have historically solved our water needs. There is not one magic solution. It is a combination of solutions.

The cost per acre-foot, since this is what I am talking about right now, on Sites would be approximately how much on the current funding plan that you have?

What is the shelf life of a study?