Press Releases

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).

Today U.S. Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18), and Jackie Speier (CA-14) released the following joint statement on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) decision not to adopt the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals recommendation to create a new NextGen procedure for arrivals into SFO from the south using the BIG SUR arrival flight path:

Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley), Congressman Henry Cuellar (D-TX), and Congresswoman Lucy McBath (D-GA) re-introduced the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Modernization Act to simplify and modernize federal student loan forgiveness programs. The U.S. Government Accountability Office has previously found major deficiencies in the U.S. Department of Education's (DOE) administration of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) program.

Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that the University of California, Santa Cruz will receive a $3.12 million grant from the National Cancer Institute for protein-RNA interactions in cancer biology research. Dr. Jeremy Sanford, a Professor at UCSC studying the roles of protein-RNA interactions in gene regulation and human inherited diseases, will manage the project.

Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that Community Bridges and North Monterey County School Districts will each be receiving USDA Farm to School Grant funding. North Monterey County Unified School District will receive $97,638 in funding for their Farm to School Expansion Project. Community Bridges will receive $48,122 to plan, develop, and implement the Edible Garden Project benefiting low-income children on the central coast of California.