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SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) announced that communities in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties will receive federal grants totaling over $4 million from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The grants are provided through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), Emergency Shelter Grants (ESG), and HOME programs.
Seaside >> Dennis Lewallen, a retired U.S. Army infantryman, was searching the internet from his Kansas home recently for information on a man he had served with who had been killed in Vietnam.
The name Laszlo Holovits pulled in a Monterey Herald story from 2015.
"I am trying to decide if there would be any benefit to Mrs. Holovits in contacting her," he emailed the reporter.
SALINAS, CA – Today, immediately following the Trump Administration's announcement that it will seek to roll back current fuel economy and emissions standards and nullify California's waiver, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined a coalition of 60 Democratic Members of Congress in announcing a resolution (H.Con.Res 130) to oppose the move. The resolution demonstrates multi-state support for the existing federal clean car standards and states' right to adopt California's more stringent standards.
SALINAS, CA – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20) and Congressman Steve Knight (R-CA-25) introduced bipartisan legislation to support seasonal employees of the National Park Service (NPS). Under existing regulation, seasonal employees of the NPS are only permitted to work at one National Park annually. The bill, H.R. 6599, would amend the law to permit seasonal employees to work at multiple NPS sites in a given year.
Monterey >> The United States and Russia are closer to a nuclear exchange than at any time since the Cold War, warned former Defense Secretary William Perry recently at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey.
SALINAS, CA – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) today announced dates and locations for staff mobile office hours for the month of August. Congressional staff members will be available in Watsonville, Hollister, and Soledad to assist with issues concerning Social Security, Medicare, federal employee retirement, immigration services, passports, veterans' services, searching for military records, and any other federal matters.
Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined Central Coast veterans for a "Vet into Your Sanctuary" Cruise on board the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research vessel Fulmar.
President Donald Trump's trade war is unifying a large chunk of California's congressional delegation on behalf of farmers.
But notably absent from the coalition is House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who represents Kern County, one of California's and the nation's top agricultural producers.
Valley Republicans David Valadao, Devin Nunes, and Jeff Denham, and Democrat Jim Costa are among the lawmakers asking the Trump administration not to overlook California's specialty crop growers when it comes to providing aid for those hurt by retaliatory tariffs.
More than 80 Congressmen, in a letter to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, are voicing opposition to "unacceptable" changes to the transferability policy for the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill.
Read the letter here.