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March 10, 2011

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) announced that the Fresno Fire Department will receive an Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency.

March 10, 2011

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) announced $616,502 in federal funding for the Shafter Community Health Center.

February 28, 2011

Costa Will AlsoServe on Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy & Forestry;Resources Subcommittees on Water & Power and Energy & Mineral Resources

Fresno,CA –After being selected as Ranking Member on the Rural Development, Research,Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee, Congressman Costa made thefollowing statement:

February 28, 2011

WASHINGTON,D.C. —Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) released the following statement on PresidentBarack Obama's State of the Union address:

"ThePresident's call for all Americans to work together to make the country'seconomic recovery our highest priority is something we can all agree on. Some of us in Congress have been saying that for the past two years!"

February 28, 2011
FRESNO– Today,Congressman Jim Costa announced that in response to his request, the U.S.Department of Agriculture has decided to fully deregulate Roundup ReadyAlfalfa. "Last year I joined my colleagues in requesting Secretary Vilsacktake this action, and I am glad that the USDA was able to make this commonsense decision," Costa said.
February 28, 2011

Fresno,CA –Upon learning of today's decision by the Department of the Army, the NationalCemetery Administration, and the Veterans Administration to deny a waiverrequest for Hmong General Vang Pao to be interred in Arlington NationalCemetery, Congressman Jim Costa issued the following statement:

February 28, 2011
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Jim Costa today announced $16.922 million in emergency funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to prevent the spread of the European grapevine moth in California.

This funding will help Central Valley farmers combat the spread of this foreign pest, which was first found in California in 2009.

February 28, 2011
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno), along with Congressmen Dennis Cardoza (D-CA), Larry Kissell (D-NC), and Mike McCaul (R-TX), wrote a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to reverse U.S. Army Secretary John McHugh's decision to reject a waiver request for Hmong General Vang Pao to be interred at Arlington National Cemetery.
February 28, 2011
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa (D-Fresno) made the following statement at a hearing of the House Committee on Agriculture's Subcommittee on Rural Development, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture.

The hearing focused on the various definitions of "rural" applied under programs operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

February 28, 2011

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa(D-Fresno) sharply criticized the Department of the Army's treatment of a burialwaiver request for Hmong General Vang Pao to be interred at Arlington NationalCemetery in a letter addressed to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.