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January 9, 2024
In five years, Fresno’s core will be transformed into the first major hub on America’s most ambitious active infrastructure project: a 500-mile bullet train shuttling people 200-plus mph from San Francisco to Los Angeles in under three hours. But unlike Interstate 5, the state’s north-south connector, it’ll run through the heart of the Central Valley.
January 2, 2024
Not only one of the more unusual stories for the Central Valley in 2023, but the discovery of an illegal bio-lab in Reedley with links to the Chinese government made headlines across the globe.
December 14, 2023
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) joined the Problem Solvers Caucus in backing the bipartisan
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December 13, 2023
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) released the following statement after House Republicans passed a resolution to authorize a baseless impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
December 12, 2023
Still reeling from the discovery a year ago of a biological laboratory operating secretly – and illegally – in the city of Reedley, Fresno County supervisors unanimously gave initial approval to an ordinance requiring annual inspections of any privately-funded biological research labs that are not regulated under federal law.
December 5, 2023
California will receive about $3.1 billion from the Biden Administration to help advance planning and construction of the state’s bullet-train line through Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, including extensions to Merced and Bakersfield. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, announced the grant from the Federal Railroad Administration in separate statements Tuesday afternoon.
December 5, 2023
Despite mounting criticism of California’s high-speed rail project, Rep. Jim Costa of Fresno remains one of its biggest supporters. On Tuesday afternoon, Costa announced that he had secured $3.1 billion from the Biden administration for bullet-train projects in Fresno, Bakersfield, and other Valley cities.
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December 5, 2023
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) released the following statement celebrating the first anniversary of the Farm Food Future (F3) Initiative, a critical program funded by a $65 million federal grant from the EDA designed to drive economic growth and equity in the Central Valley.
November 16, 2023
WASHINGTON (KFSN) -- Valley Congressman Jim Costa, along with the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, has unveiled a report on their investigation into the illegal Reedley lab. Costa was joined by Congressman Mike Gallagher, former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, city officials from Reedley, and more in a news conference from the U.S. Capitol Wednesday afternoon.