Jim Costa

I think it is counterproductive to encourage companies that are investing in Iran when we have an economic boycott on Iran.

We are talking about using those revenues from oil and gas, both onshore and offshore, over a programmatic period of time to finance that robust renewable portfolio.

Our Subcommittee has tried to look at using all the energy tools in our energy tool box.

We are going to need all of the flexibility and the attention of the Department of the Interior to help us if, in fact, that occurs.

It is a constant concern of the devastation of the impacts, economic impacts to the people in my communities of this drought.

I appreciate the importance of this hearing today and to have the Secretary of the Interior here.

I think partnerships are very critical.

I want to commend you for putting this hearing together. It is an important issue.

The suggestion that he would have thought that any citizen or group of citizens or the Congress of the United States was precluded by some deal or some judgment he had made a generation earlier from taking new action to express that love…

Mo Udall was my hero and my mentor. I worked with him daily for 12 years crafting legislation that set a new standard for stewardship of the lands and resources that sustain us all.

Another comprehensive food safety bill is H.R. 1332, the 'Safe Food Enforcement, Assessment, Standards, and Targeting Act of 2009' or 'SAFE FEAST Act.'

But it depends how the product is operated.

We very much believe that an indemnification program is needed as we consider this legislation.

I think, falsely advised consumers against consuming raw tomatoes when they were never actually a part of the food safety in question.

I once again want to thank you and Chairman Peterson.

We are committed to helping the dairy farmers and to bring some price stabilization.

We want to get the Agriculture Department back over here.

We have a very serious, serious problem, a critical one.

Mr. Chairman, we need to get a handle on this as we move forward on whatever long-term solutions we find...

If we are going to deal with these long-term boom-and-bust cycles, that is going to have to be a critical part of the long-term solution.

We hope to continue to vet that with you during the month of August.

The issues are, many of them are, related to competitiveness, and the fact that we would be more competitive in the long run as you get the distortions out of the international trading system, and those are primarily export subsidies.

If we are going to try to change this cycle, these boom-and-bust cycles continuing to be narrow, it seems to me that the industry has to come together

The worst I have ever seen it, in our family, in my family's generation

This Subcommittee has provided in the full Committee as it relates to what has been the meltdown of the dairy industry nationwide