Jim Costa

On Tuesday, Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse and Central California’s Jim Costa penned a letter to congressional leadership urging the inclusion of critical water infrastructure in the upcoming COVID-19 stimulus package. The bipartisan letter was signed by 24 members of Congress. The lette ...

Roughly one-thousand farm and food groups have written Congressional leaders to ratify the USMCA in a clear move to step up pressure to get the deal done.  The letter to the top leaders of the House and Senate urging approval of the tri-lateral deal probably has more signatories than any letter of its kind in recent memory.  It...

This House Ag Committee approval this week of its 2018 Farm Bill measure is just the first step in a legislative process leading to the final reauthorization that is signed into law.  That point was reiterated by two longtime committee members.  ...