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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) voted for the Great American Outdoors Act, a landmark conservation bill that will help ensure public lands are protected and preserved. The bipartisan legislation passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now heading to the President's desk to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) and Congressman Billy Long (MO-07) led their colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter urging House leadership to include strong support for our state and county agricultural fairs in the next COVID-19 relief package.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined over 100 House Members in demanding information from Attorney General William Barr and Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf about unidentified federal law enforcement personnel deployed in Portland, Oregon over the objections of state and local officials.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided financial assistance to 6,621 local businesses and helped to retain over 82,000 jobs across the central coast of California.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) and Congressman Darin LaHood (R-IL) today introduced the Providing Liquidity for Uncollectible Sales (PLUS) Act, which will provide a tax credit to food and beverage distributors to cover uncollectible debt for products that were shipped to establishments prior to COVID-19 related shutdowns, but have not yet been paid for.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) on Monday voted for the bipartisan Veteran Treatment Court Act of 2019, of which he is an original cosponsor. The legislation unanimously passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now heading to the President's desk to be signed into law.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) released the following statement on the passing of Congressman John Lewis (GA-05).
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led 22 members of Congress in calling on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) announced that the Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District (METRO) received a federal grant totaling $20,560,417 to help respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The funding for this grant is from the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, which directs the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to allocate funding to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the coronavirus through the existing Urbanized Area Formula Grants Program.
SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led 136 members of Congress in calling on the administration to reverse its decision to strip international college students of their U.S. visas if their coursework was entirely online. The letter is co-led by Congresswoman Linda T. Sánchez (CA-38), Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Chairwoman Susan A.