Press Releases
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Congressman Van Taylor (R-TX), Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Congresswoman Elaine Luria (D-VA) introduced the Full Military Honors Act. The legislation provides a full military honors ceremony – including funeral escort honor platoon, military band, firing party, and horse-drawn caisson – to Medal of Honor recipients and Prisoners Of War eligible for burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
SALINAS, CA – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) has invited Anthony Musa, a federal employee and national security intelligence analyst who was furloughed during the government shutdown, as his guest to the State of the Union.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), joined his colleagues Reps. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), Ron Kind (D-WI), and Darin LaHood (R-IL), in introducing the Bicameral Congressional Trade Authority Act of 2019 to require the president to submit to Congress any proposal to adjust imports in the interest of national security under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) released the following statement after President Donald Trump announced a deal to reopen the government:
WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed his bipartisan legislation, H.R. 676, the NATO Support Act:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) introduced the bipartisan NATO Support Act. The legislation reiterates strong Congressional support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the longest-standing and most successful military alliance in the world.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), along with Bruce Westerman (R-AR-4), successfully incorporated an amendment to H.R. 268, the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2019, to increase funding for proactive forest management. This provision will provide $10 million in additional funding for the U.S. Forest Service's State and Private Forestry account, not only aiding recovery from the 2018 fires but also providing communities more resources to improve the health of our forests.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced legislation to shield farmworkers from deportation and put them on a path toward earned legal status and eventual citizenship.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) was re-appointed by Congressional leadership to serve on the House Agriculture Committee. Congressman Panetta released the following statement:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led 54 of his colleagues in writing Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expressing concern that the administration's decision to decrease the number of Area Census Offices could lead to a potential undercount of rural, immigrant, low-income, communities of color, and traditionally hard to count communities during the 2020 Census.