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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.
Today, two retirement security bills authored by Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley), the Public Service Retirement Fairness Act and the Family Attribution Modernization Act, passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced that the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $4 million American Rescue Plan Travel, Tourism and Outdoor Recreation program grant to the city of Santa Cruz, California, to develop new arts and entertainment infrastructure within the Tannery Arts Center and increase tourism to the region.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) announced that $540,000 from the 2022 budget package will go to the Santa Cruz Port District to help cover the cost of its annual maintenance dredging. Rep. Panetta worked with both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to secure this request on behalf of the Santa Cruz Harbor Port Commission. The funding will be used to maintain the commercial and recreational safety of this historic harbor on the Central Coast.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Rep. Jimmy Panetta wrote to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Shalanda Young reiterating his call to remove the former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research building in Pacific Grove from the auction block and instead consider a public conveyance of the property.