Press Releases
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that Monterey County received a grant totaling $1,760,000 in COVID-19 Recovery and Resiliency Project funding to help Monterey County and its small businesses respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The funding for this grant is from the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which directs the Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) to allocate funding to municipalities.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined with Reps. Katherine Clark (MA-05), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Richard Neal (MA-01), Danny K. Davis (IL-07), Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Jahana Hayes (CT-05), and 59 other members of Congress to call for the inclusion of both the Child Care is Essential Act and the Child Care for Economic Recovery Act in the next Coronavirus supplemental package.
WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Dianne Feinstein and Congressman Jimmy Panetta (both D-Calif.), joined by 30 of their congressional colleagues, called on the House and Senate leadership
WASHINGTON DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Congressman Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09), Congresswoman Jackie Walorski (R-IN-02), and Congressman David Schweikert (R-AZ-06) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure new parents quickly receive the additional $500 per child payment provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
WASHINGTON DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20) and Congressman Billy Long (R-MO-07) introduced legislation to help preserve agricultural fairs across the country and offset the devastating financial losses they have experienced due to COVID-19. The Agricultural Fairs Rescue Act will provide grant funding for agricultural fairs through state departments of agriculture to keep them functioning and preserve them for the future.
WASHINGTON DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20), Congressman Jesús "Chuy" García (IL-04), Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38), and Congressman Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) introduced legislation to enhance COVID-19 relief funding for nonprofit community economic development centers that support minority- and immigrant-owned small businesses.
WASHINGTON DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Congressman Mike Simpson (R-ID), Congresswoman Kim Schrier, M.D. (D-WA), and Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) introduced the Repairing Existing Public Land by Adding Necessary Trees Act or the REPLANT Act, legislation to expand funding for the U.S. forestland damaged by events such as wildfires, insects and disease, while creating more than 48,000 jobs over the next ten years.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) released the following statement in memory of the victims of the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival one year after the tragedy. The horrific violence took the lives of Stephen Romero, 6, Keyla Salazar, 13, and Trevor Irby, 25, on July 28, 2019. Congressman Panetta represents part of the City of Gilroy.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) co-introduced legislation to allow states to extend administrative flexibilities for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, authorized by Congress in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). The Emergency SNAP Flexibilities Extension Act, HR 7794, augments the flexibility that FFCRA provided to states by extending the blanket SNAP waivers approved by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been approving for states during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) supported passage of the National Museum of the American Latino Act, H.R. 2420, of which he is a cosponsor. The bill will establish a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino on the National Mall dedicated to honoring the contributions of Latinos to the United States. The legislation will now go to the Senate for consideration.