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Jimmy Varni Panetta is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 20th congressional district since January 3, 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as national security, agriculture, and veterans' affairs during his time in office. Panetta is the son of Leon Panetta, who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He has worked to address local concerns in his district, which includes parts of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate this hearing, which I am sure there will be many hearings in which we are going to talk about this very, very important subject of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, especially as we…
I look forward to working with you on that and many other issues as we approach the 2023 Farm Bill as well.
You talked about a relationship between the USDA and the Department of Energy specifically dealing with funding on grid reliability.
We are really looking at a regional approach that is commodity-specific that really looks at some of the bottlenecks in the supply chain and invests there
The very idea that you are leaving fruit behind in the field is horrific from a food waste perspective and feeding hungry people
This isn't about politics. This really is about policy, policies that we are talking about to deal with a very pressing issue...
Now, in my district on the Central Coast of California, as I always say, we have a lot of bounty, and we have a lot of beauty.
It takes a lot of work together. It takes a lot of work coming to the table and making sure our producers are at the table to talk about the protections for agriculture, for ag workers, and yes, even for our environment.
One of the growing challenges, especially in my state, is the everchanging landscape due to the climate crisis.
I want to focus on something in regards to what you mentioned in your introduction about rural designation.
I am well aware not only of the benefits of our agriculture to our community and our country, but also the many, many challenges faced by that number one industry in the number one agricultural state in the nation, California.
One of the other aspects of the work that we do that really isn't tailored to fit specialty or organic crops is our farm loan programs, and we are working very diligently with those groups to try to find a way to craft those tools to…
Please know that myself and Rodney Davis were the ones who worked hard to get that language into the 2018 Farm Bill
Are you willing to work on some sort of compromise when it comes to dealing with DHS on that type of mandate?
Is the USDA engaging with the DOL to make the only game in town, the H-2A process, actually work for our producers?
My producers are running into a couple of difficulties... there are some difficulties with it.
I want to thank you for your personal efforts with the Senate to go up there and push forward the Farm Workforce Modernization Act.
Thank you very much for being here today. I truly appreciate you showing up to Capitol Hill.
I introduced the Expanding the Maritime Environmental and Technical Assistance Program (META) Act, which was signed into law.
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