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Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) applauded the Secretary of Defense’s authorization of Imminent Danger Pay (IDP) to servicemembers operating in Burkina Faso, effective retroactively back to February 01, 2022. 

Washington - Today, Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), Mike Collins (R-Ga), Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) introduced the Aviation Workforce Development Act, a bill to make training at FAA-certified commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance technician schools a qualified expense for existing 529 Plans. Representatives Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.), Lucy McBath, (D-Ga.), Julia Brownley (D-Calif.) and Russell Fry (R-S.C.) also joined the effort as original co-sponsors.

Washington, D.C. – Reps. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-19) and Don Bacon (R-NE-02) introduced a House concurrent resolution Condemning the Russian Federation’s Kidnapping of Ukrainian Children, along with cosponsors Reps. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX-35), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Doug Lamalfa (R-CA-01), Doug Lamborn (R-CO-05), Nancy Mace (R-SC-01), Joe Morelle (D-NT-25), Jamie Raskin (D-MD-08) , to bring attention to the alarming acts taken against the children of Ukraine.

Monterey, CA - U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta joined Reps. Jim Costa (CA-21), Zoe Lofgren (CA-18), Ken Calvert (CA-41), and David Valadao (CA-22), along with U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) leading a bipartisan, bicameral letter to President Joe Biden urging him to issue a major disaster declaration for the State of California in response to recent winter storms beginning February 21, 2023.

Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and Randy Feenstra (IA-04) introduced the Advancing Cutting Edge (ACE) Agriculture Act to better foster innovative agricultural research and development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid extreme weather in California that has caused devastating flooding and breached the Pajaro River levee, Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.-19) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.-18) along with U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urging them to accelerate construction of the federally authorized project to repair the levee and to provide emergency repairs and response for the towns of Pajaro and Watsonville, which bore the brunt of the flooding.

Monterey, CA – Today, United States Representatives Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), August Pfluger (TX-11), Gus Bilirakis (Fl.-12), Ken Buck (CO-04), and Chris Pappas (NH-01) with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the Combating Illicit Xylazine Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation with to crack down and schedule the highly dangerous sedative causing fatal overdoses nationwide.

Monterey, CA – Today, U.S. Representative Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) announced the reintroduction of the Military Family Nutrition Access Act, a bill designed to provide essential support to military families in accessing healthy and affordable food options.