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WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of members sent letter urging President Joe Biden to provide F-16 fighter aircraft to Ukraine as Kyiv continues its fight against Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion one year into the conflict.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) and Congressman David G. Valadao (CA-22) introduced the Emergency Wildfire Fighting Technology Act. Some of California’s largest and most destructive wildfires have happened in the last five years, underscoring the urgent need to increase investment in alternative firefighting systems.
Proposed bipartisan legislation from two Valley congressmen would jump-start the effort to bring a wildfire-fighting technology used in other parts of the world to the United States.
It’s the very technology that a Fresno company has sold to other countries and the U.S. Air Force for years.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of House members sent a letter to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken to exert pressure on the Pakistani government in order to address the human rights situation.
Read the full letter here.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and over 190 of his colleagues sent a bipartisan letter to the U.S. Department of State to address the significant delays in processing passport applications.
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 (CA-21), along with Reps. Jimmy Gomez (CA-34), Josh Harder (CA-10), Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Alma Adams (NC-12), and 117 other Members of Congress introduced legislation to address the growing crisis of food insecurity among college students.
The LICENSE Act would streamline burdensome licensing regulations.
Additional legislation that would benefit the trucking industry is back in the fold.
The Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently (LICENSE) Act of 2023 has been reintroduced in the 118th Congress by a group of bipartisan House lawmakers.