Press Releases
SALINAS, CA – Today, Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) and Blake Moore (R-UT) introduced the Save Our Forests Act to address chronic staffing shortages in National Forests, including the Central Coast's Los Padres National Forest, to improve risk mitigation and response to wildfires.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the House Agriculture Committee passed Rep. Jimmy Panetta's (D-Carmel Valley) bipartisan Agricultural Fairs Rescue Act. This bill would help fairs across the country recover from the severe financial losses they incurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, 98% percent of agriculture fairs in the United States were cancelled, leading to an estimated $4.5 billion in revenue losses. Rep.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted to advance the House Ways and Means Committee contributions to the Build Back Better Act, which included provisions from several of the bills he authored in the 117th Congress. Rep. Panetta's was able to secure legislation in the markup on protecting family farms and providing tax credits for linear generators, microgrids, green buses, and e-bikes. The overall package that Rep.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) released the following statement after President Biden announced his intent to nominate Elaine Trevino as the Chief Agriculture Negotiator for United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai. In June, Reps.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted to pass a package of bills through the House Ways and Means Committee to make crucial investments to create jobs, lower the cost of health care, and support America's workers and families. This package makes up key portions of President Biden's Build Back Better Act. Next week, the Ways and Means Committee will continue consideration of this package to provide tax cuts to working families, incentivize clean energy, and strengthen our healthcare system.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) will allow pre-harvest testing on romaine lettuce from the Salinas Valley, a substantial improvement from a 2020 requirement for finished-product testing. The updated testing procedures will ensure safe, healthy product can once again move across our border to feed communities around the world.
SALINAS, CA - Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14), and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18) introduced eight pieces of legislation to reduce airport noise, prioritize consideration of noise and other environmental concerns and improve the transparency of actions taken by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
CARMEL VALLEY, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) issued the following statement regarding the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan. Rep. Panetta is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and served in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008 as an intelligence officer assigned to a special operations task force.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced that the Department of Defense will seek authorization to require the COVID-19 vaccine for all active-duty military service members. In March 2021, Rep. Panetta and a small group of his colleagues sent a letter to the White House requesting that President Joe Biden issue a waiver of informed consent to require vaccines for all military service members.
Today, Rep. Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) and Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ-09), led members of the House Ways and Means Committee in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig asking they do everything possible to ensure that parents and caregivers who welcomed a child into their household in 2021 receive the Child Tax Credit (CTC).