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WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Ken Calvert (CA-41), and David Valadao (CA-22), along with U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter to President Joe Biden urging him to issue a major disaster declaration for the State of California in response to recent winter storms beginning February 21, 2023.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21), alongside Representatives Mike Gallagher (WI-08), Bryan Steil (WI-01), Angie Craig (MN-02), Glenn Grothman (WI-06), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), introduced the bipartisan CURD (Codifying Useful Regulatory Definitions) Act to help better inform consumers’ cheese purchasing decisions. This bill would codify a formal definition of “natural cheese,” a term commonly used on food packaging that currently has no official definition.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus sent aletter urging President Biden to nominate a qualified Latino to serve as Commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In the letter, members emphasized that for over two decades there has not been a Latino FCC Commissioner.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21) and Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04) announced the launch of the bipartisan Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus in the 118th Congress.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and his House colleagues wrote to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, FDIC Chair Martin J. Gruenberg, and Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu, urging immediate action to protect depositors and prevent runs on banks following the Silicon Valley Bank collapse.
WOODLAKE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Communities throughout the valley and state continue to deal with the effects of the latest atmospheric river.
The rain-on-snow event is forcing massive amounts of water downstream.
Meguel Lopez is just one of the dozens of Woodlake residents whose homes were flooded by overflowing water from Antelope creek.
One day following an atmospheric river that left large portions of the South Valley in six inches of flood waters, Congressman Jim Costa was in Tulare County to assess the damage.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) issued the following statement following the California State Water Board’s approval of a petition filed by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to divert over 600,000 acre-feet of San Joaquin River flood waters for wildlife refuges, underground storage, and recharge.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21) and Brad Finstad (MN-01) introduced the Growing Rural Ag Infrastructure Needs to Deliver Rising Yields (GRAIN DRY) Act, which would expand the Farm Storage Facility Loan Program (FSFL) through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to include storage of propane for agricultural purposes.