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SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced the distribution of $4,532,605 in federal government grants to Community Health Centers in California's 20th Congressional District to help respond to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The funding for these grants comes from the recently passed Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) joined 41 Members of Congress in sending a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy supporting hazard pay and required workplace protections for essential frontline blue-collar workers keeping the economy afloat during the COVID-19 crisis. The lawmakers urged Pelosi and McCarthy to require that employers protect workers on the job while providing them with hazard pay in future COVID-19 legislation.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), along with Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI-06), Congressman Jim Costa (D-CA-16) and Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01) led 108 members of the House of Representatives in sending a bipartisan letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue calling for the Administration to provide direct support to specialty crop producers the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is implemented.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he cosponsored the Coronavirus Immigrant Families Protection Act to help ensure that all community members, regardless of immigration status, are able to access COVID-19 testing and treatment, and other relief services provided in coronavirus relief legislation.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) announced that he cosponsored the Leave No Taxpayer Behind Act to allow individuals with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) to receive direct monetary payments provided by federal coronavirus response aid.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) joined Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) and 38 other California Democrats in urging the Department of Health and Human Services to quickly distribute the $100 billion Congress authorized in the Coronavirus Aid, Response and Economic Security (CARES) Act to reimburse health care providers for care related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) joined 87 fellow lawmakers in sending a letter to Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield, calling for details about how their agencies are working to ensure the proper care of America's homeless population during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SALINAS, CA – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) led 27 bipartisan lawmakers in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles P. Rettig urging the agencies to ensure parents with children born in 2020 are able to access advance direct payments for these children as part of the coronavirus emergency response aid.