Letters
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa joined over 227 of his colleagues in a letter to Speaker McCarthy and Democratic Leader Jeffries urging action to address pending cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments – a vital resource for ensuring patients in underserved communities maintain the essential healthcare services they rely on.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa joined over 50 democratic members in a letter to AmerisourceBergen CEO Steven Collis urging him to provide the full list of states and jurisdictions where he intends to not distribute medication abortion pills to certified pharmacies.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of members sent a letter urging U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with their Japanese counterparts to ensure equal market access for U.S. farmers by eliminating Japan’s damaging frozen blueberry tariffs.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jim Costa (CA-21) joined Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Joe Morelle (NY-25), and 95 colleagues in a bipartisan letter urging the Biden Administration to create a humanitarian program for the estimated 300 Ukrainian orphans who were involved in an adoption process with a U.S.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa joined a bipartisan coalition of members in sending four letters urging the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Canada to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa joined 36 of his colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Treasury Department calling for federal guidance supporting offshore wind energy projects to facilitate the accelerated growth of clean and safe energy.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and over 48 of his colleagues sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to reconsider a proposed rule that would detrimentally increase the fees charged to small and seasonal businesses who rely upon the H2B program to hire workers and increase the processing times for these visas.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a group of members sent a letter to to Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Speaker Kevin McCarthy, and House Committee on Education and Workforce leadership calling for the expansion of access to the federal Pell Grant program for students enrolled in short-term credential programs.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and over 130 members sent a bipartisan letter urging the European Union (EU) to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.