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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted for the bipartisan Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022. This legislation will ensure that shipments of urgently needed weapons systems, ammunition, and military assistance arrive in Ukrainian hands faster and more efficiently. This Lend-Lease bill is a revival of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Lend-Lease policy enacted in March 1941, which helped win the second World War.

SALINAS, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) returned from a weeklong official visit to several North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries. The trip was led by House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) and included a delegation of nine Republican and Democratic members of Congress. The members visited Germany, Denmark, Poland, and Greenland and met with European leaders, Ukrainian refugees, U.S. troops, and diplomatic personnel.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley), along with Reps. Darin LaHood (R-Illinois), Albio Sires (D-New Jersey), and John Rose (R-Tennessee) introduced the CERTS Tax Exemption Act to provide relief to the motorcoach, school bus, and passenger vessel industries devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, Coronavirus Economic Relief for Transportation Services (CERTS) Act grants, while extremely beneficial for those industries, only replaced about 20% of their lost revenue from 2020.

SALINAS, CA –Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley), alongside Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), introduced the Amplifying Processing of Livestock in the United States (A-PLUS) Act, which would fix regulatory roadblocks to increasing meat processing capacity and allow livestock auction market owners to invest in small and regional packing facilities.

SALINAS, CA – Today, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC) awarded its first ever baccalaureate degrees in foreign language to two of its students. The bestowing of this type of higher educational degree was made possible due to the Defense Language Improvement (DLI) Act that was authored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta and included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2022.

SALINAS, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he secured $67 million in federal funding for the Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project. This funding is from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that was supported by Congressman Panetta and signed into law by President Joe Biden in the Fall of 2021.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Jim Costa (D-CA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Ron Kind (D-WI), and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) led a bipartisan group of 87 Members of Congress in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging them to make agriculture a priority in the upcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Framework). U.S. agriculture products, which are made with the highest sustainability and labor standards, need global markets to continue to grow.