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WASHINGTON, DC – Today the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill spearheaded by U.S. Representatives Jimmy Panetta (D-CA-20), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19), Dan Newhouse (R-WA-04), Mike Simpson (R-ID-02), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01), and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL-25), passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a 260-165 vote.
The House passed the Farm Workforce Modernization Act Wednesday, voting for a measure that would give undocumented farmworkers a pathway to permanent residence.
"This is a chance to solve a problem for America," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who spearheaded the bill.
The last time congress addressed agricultural labor was in 1986.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) voted for the Coastal and Great Lakes Communities Enhancement Act, H.R. 729, a package of ten bipartisan bills that aid coastal ecosystems and economies, improve ocean monitoring and research, and offer coastal managers tools to protect coastal communities most vulnerable to climate impacts.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Jimmy Panetta (CA-20) released the following statement after Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal announced a deal with United States Trade Representative Ambassador Lighthizer on the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the For Country Caucus formally endorsed Congressman Jimmy Panetta's (CA-20) bipartisan legislation, the Legal Services for Homeless Veterans Act, H.R. 3749.
Californians are increasingly faced with housing insecurity as 47 percent of our state's voters say they cannot find an affordable place to live, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll. Clearly, the lack of an affordable housing supply is one of the root causes of high housing costs in California. Congress can alleviate this crisis by providing more federal tax credits for more affordable housing.
Over the last 40 years, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas has delivered low-cost medical care to thousands of local agricultural workers and their families, as well as other low income residents and those with no health insurance. Its staff have also delivered more than 10,000 newborns since 1986, according to the nonprofit's website.
In 2018, Clinica served more than 50,000 Monterey County residents in 195,000 visits at 12 clinic sites and through its mobile medical program and a dentistry practice.
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Naomi Earp, the Agriculture deputy assistant secretary for civil rights, who ran into trouble trying to get the Senate to confirm her as assistant secretary, has won the ire of Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, who chairs the House Agriculture Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations Subcommittee.
Fudge expressed indignation with Earp at many points during a November 19 oversight hearing, but was particularly upset by Earp's statement that some USDA employees use Equal Employment Opportunity complaints to punish managers and supervisors.
MONTEREY — Rep. Jimmy Panetta is hoping to pump the brakes on a federal plan opening up more than 720,000 acres of Central Coast land to new oil and gas drilling.
Legislation introduced Wednesday by Panetta, D-Carmel Valley, would block the Bureau of Land Management from leasing new oil and gas wells on California's Central Coast until the agency completes an additional review that accounts for a wider range of environmental impacts.