Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) announced that Santa Cruz received federal grants totaling over $752,000 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The grants will be provided through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs.

Santa Cruz will receive a CDBG grant totaling $498,973 and a HOME grant totaling $253,105.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) released the following statement in response to emerging details of the bipartisan health care plan put forth by Senators Patty Murray and Lamar Alexander:

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined over 100 colleagues in the House of Representatives in sending a letter to President Donald Trump expressing disappointment in his decision to set the presidential determination for refugee admissions at 45,000 for Fiscal Year 2018. The letter urges the President to reconsider his determination and establish a minimum refugee admission level of 110,000 for Fiscal Year 2018, the same level as the Presidential Determination for Fiscal Year 2017.

SALINAS, CA – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20) and Congressman Neal Dunn, M.D. (R-FL-02) led a bipartisan group of 79 House members in urging the USDA, FDA, and EPA to work together to promote innovative new technologies, including agricultural gene editing, to increase yields and reduce the cost of production. In the letter to Secretary Sonny Perdue, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, and Administrator Scott Pruitt, the members seek the agencies' cooperation in creating consistent regulatory proposals that foster innovation.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Mike Coffman (R-CO), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Don Bacon (R-NE) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), in a strong bipartisan effort, have introduced H. J.Res. 118, a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), to provide clear Congressional authorization guidelines for the use of military force.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) issued the following statement after U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan:

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.) released the following statement in response to the immigration principles that the Trump Administration released Sunday evening:

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) today announced that he cosponsored the Automatic Gunfire Prevention Act. Introduced by Congressman David Cicilline (RI-01), the bill would ban the manufacture, possession, transfer, sale, or importation of bump stocks like the one used to murder 59 innocent men and women and injure hundreds more earlier this week in Las Vegas.