Press Releases
Washington - Today, Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Mike Collins (R-Ga), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced the Aviation Workforce Development Act, a bill to make training at FAA-certified commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance technician schools a qualified expense for existing 529 Plans. Representatives Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.), Lucy McBath, (D-Ga.), Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) and Russell Fry (R-S.C.) also joined the effort as original co-sponsors.
Washington, D.C. – Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19) and Don Bacon (R-NE-02) introduced a House concurrent resolution Condemning the Russian Federation’s Kidnapping of Ukrainian Children, along with cosponsors Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Doug Lamalfa (R-CA-01), Doug Lamborn (R-CO-05), Nancy Mace (R-SC-01), Joe Morelle (D-NT-25), Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) , to bring attention to the alarming acts taken against the children of Ukraine.
Monterey, CA - U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta joined Reps. 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) leading 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.
Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and Randy Feenstra (IA-04) introduced the Advancing Cutting Edge (ACE) Agriculture Act to better foster innovative agricultural research and development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid extreme weather in California that has caused devastating flooding and breached the Pajaro River levee, Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.-19) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18) along with U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging them to accelerate construction of the federally authorized project to repair the levee and to provide emergency repairs and response for the towns of Pajaro and Watsonville, which bore the brunt of the flooding.
Monterey, CA – Today, United States Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), August Pfluger (TX-11), Gus Bilirakis (Fl.-12), Ken Buck (CO-04), and Chris Pappas (NH-01) with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation with to crack down and schedule the highly dangerous sedative causing fatal overdoses nationwide.
Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) led a bipartisan coalition to introduce the Military Food Security Act joined by, Representatives Blake Moore (UT-01), Marilyn Strickland (WA-10), Don Bacon (NE-02), Sara Jacobs (CA-51), Mike Levin (CA-49), and House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05).
Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) announced the reintroduction of the Military Family Nutrition Access Act, a bill designed to provide essential support to military families in accessing healthy and affordable food options.
Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) led a bipartisan cross-committee coalition in the U.S. House of Representatives in introducing two pieces of legislation to help military families facing hunger to purchase nutritious meals by expanding eligibility for federal support.
Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Congressional Bike Caucus Chairman Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), Mike Thompson (CA-04), and Adam Schiff (CA-30) reintroduced the Electric Bicycle Incentive Kickstart for the Environment (E-BIKE) Act to encourage the use of electric bicycles, or e-bikes, through a consumer tax credit.