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SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he introduced gun safety legislation to ensure completion of background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system. Currently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is statutorily required to purge incomplete gun background checks from its systems if they are no
SALINAS, CA – Yesterday evening, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) held a wildfire insurance workshop with California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, State Senator Bill Monning, and other community leaders and stakeholders to discuss the growing of issues affecting the insurance marketplace due to wildfire risk throughout the state.
PACIFIC GROVE, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he introduced H.R. 5920, the bipartisan Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat (MONARCH) Act. Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), Rodney Davis (R-IL-12), and Rob Woodall (R-GA-07) co-led introduction of the House bill.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led his colleagues in writing a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo regarding their concerns about Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s recent decision to lead armed soldiers into a meeting of the country’s Legislative Assembly.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he cosponsored the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, legislation that would phase out unnecessary single-use plastic products, hold corporations accountable for wasteful products, reduce wasteful packaging, and reform our broken waste and recycling collection system.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) sent another letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted for H.J.Res.79, to facilitate timely ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution. The legislation passed the U.S.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted for the Protecting America’s Wilderness Act, H.R.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the bipartisan Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act, introduced by Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20) and Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY-23), unanimously passed the Ways and Means Committee, recommending the legislation for