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December 30, 2022

Salinas, CA – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) announced a $30 million grant for Santa Cruz County to build the final phase of its planned Watsonville-Cruz Multimodal Corridor Program.

Issues: Environment

December 30, 2022

alinas, CA – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced the winner of his district’s Congressional App Challenge, Toma Brasoveanu (pronounced Brah-show-va-nu), a seventh-grade student from Pacific Collegiate School in Santa Cruz.

Issues: Education

December 27, 2022

SALINAS, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced nearly $1.4 million in Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants to expand local COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

Issues: Health

December 23, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) joined a bipartisan majority in the House and Senate to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 and send it to President Joe Biden for his signature.


December 23, 2022

Washington, DC –U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), member of the House Armed Services Committee, advanced critical priorities for the central coast of California in the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).


December 22, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted to pass the Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022 to ensure our nation’s tax laws are applied evenly and justly to all, including the President and Vice President of the United States.


December 21, 2022

Washington, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted to release reports and their attached exhibits by the Committee on Ways and Means and the Joint Committee on Taxation on the failures of the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) mandatory program to audit presidential and vice-presidential tax returns.


December 16, 2022

SALINAS, CA – During a panel discussion on United States national security priorities, Secretary of the United States Navy, Carlos Del Toro and Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced the new Naval Innovation Center (NIC) at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).


December 16, 2022

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) and Representative Connie Conway (R-Tulare) introduced the First Responders’ Care Expansion (FRCE) Act to lower the Medicare enrollment age for classified first responders to 57.


December 15, 2022

Salinas, CA – U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) introduced the Everett Alvarez, Jr. Congressional Gold Medal Act to award Commander Everett Alvarez, Jr., the second-longest held Prisoner of War (POW) in U.S. history, Congress’ highest honor.