Jim Costa

I would like to know when we are going to get it and what has been the delay.

I think there is really value added for all the reasons that were stated before.

In my opinion, it is the single biggest reason this country has achieved no net loss of wetlands.

California uses over 500,000 phytosanitary export certificates to access those markets.

This is often viewed as the canary in the coal mine.

Thank you very much, Madam Chairperson, for allowing me to participate with the Subcommittee this afternoon.

My family has been involved in the dairy business for three generations, and I guess if I didn't have this job I could get a job somewhere milking cows.

I too rise to thank Father Coughlin, Father Dan, for his spiritual sustenance and guidance that he has given all the Members of the House during his service to our country. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to be here today to commemorate the 96th…

California's Governor will soon declare an end to the drought that devastated the San Joaquin Valley. Our cities are flooding and our rivers are raging and the snowpack in the Sierras is deeper than it has been in any 15-year period. It is…

I am not so sure that we ever truly are going to be independent, but certainly everybody believes that we ought to reduce our dependency on foreign sources.

And it seems what is lacking to me is how we can agree on a bipartisan fashion on how we obtain that goal.

I have been on this Committee for six years, and we have obviously had this discussion and debate throughout those six years.

I commend that we did an early announcement at 50 percent.

How will the proposed reductions in spending for these basic data gathering... impact DOI's ability to fulfill its statutory mandates?

If it is going to have any success and if the locals are going to continue to support it and participate financially, and the state, the consolidation and the efforts and the Federal participation is critical, and there has to be an end to…

We will continue to focus like a laser beam on the issues in the California Bay Delta.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs received a budget increase for energy initiatives and I know that IBEW, electrical workers, and NECA, the electrical contractors, have submitted a white paper.

I want to congratulate Commissioner Connor for working heavily with us on Title 16, especially with the error money, to make real water and put people to work.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. Thank you, Mr. Secretary, for the good job that you are doing on a host of issues.

Our national debt, as we all know, is approaching $14 trillion, with a capital ``T.'' It's clear that we can no longer afford to continue the partisan bickering and short-term thinking that too long has consumed our Nation's capital. While…

I think that needs to be back there front and center. Everybody ought to be getting healthy together again.

But I think when we have other areas that have 100 percent in the area, that we could get up to 60 or 70 percent, but we are going to have to cut back in April and May, as you know.

Frankly, without your full participation, and I have told Secretary Salazar this, and I will reiterate it tomorrow, this isn't going to work.

What steps are you taking to make sure that they won't happen again this year?

Maybe we need to reset, as we say with our negotiations with Russia, reset this so the right hand knows what the left hand is doing