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WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16) joined a bipartisan group of colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland urging for additional support to combat wildfires and ensure Western communities have the resources they need to suppress wildfires.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16), a member of the Congressional Armenian Caucus, joined over 40 bipartisan colleagues in calling on the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development to address the overwhelming humanitarian crisis in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) as a result of Azerbaijan’s aggression.
Fresno State opened in 1911 as what was then called Fresno State Normal School. Today it is officially called California State University, Fresno.
Regardless of the name, there is no question of the huge role the university has had over its 111-year-history in the educational advancement of the San Joaquin Valley.
FRESNO, Calif. – Today, Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary for Rural Development Xochitl Torres Small announced nearly $1 million in emergency rural health care grants for the Central California Food Bank to tackle food insecurity and support healthy outcomes in communities across the San Joaquin Valley.
FRESNO, Calif. - Congressman Jim Costa (CA-16), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, hosted United States Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on a tour of Fresno and Madera counties, where they met and spoke with Valley water leaders and farmers about the impact of the drought crisis in the San Joaquin Valley and across California.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced the Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $23 million American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge grant to the Fresno County Economic Development Corporation, Fresno, California, to develop and launch a program that aims to bolster and diversify the regional economy by placing thousands of workers into good-paying jobs.