Jimmy Panetta

Democrat · CA-19 · U.S. House

Bio

James Varni Panetta is an American lawyer, politician, and former Navy intelligence officer from the state of California.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 160 of 437 by time served
Age: 56

District offices

Santa Cruz, CA · 831-429-1976
Paso Robles, CA · 805-400-6535
Monterey, CA · 831-424-2229
San Jose, CA · 408-960-0333

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

−$457k

2020

−$367k

2021

−$1.0M

2022

−$300k

2023

−$276k

2024

−$351k

2025

−$210k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $230k – $850k
Liabilities: $500k – $1.0M
Net worth: −$770k – $350k
Since 2019: +$247k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 26 assets reported

Janus IRA ⇒ Janus Henderson Research Fund - D Shares (JNRFX)$100k – $250k

SP Undetermined None Bank of America$50k – $100k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class 529-A Shares (CFNAX$15k – $50k

Janus IRA ⇒ Janus Henderson Global Life Sciences Fund - D Shares (JNGLX)$15k – $50k

Janus IRA ⇒ Janus Henderson Global Select Fund - D Shares (JANRX)$15k – $50k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC2, account 1 ⇒ American Balanced Fund, Class 529-C Shares (CLBCX)$15k – $50k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ Capital Income Builder Class 529-A Shares (CIRAX$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ Capital World Growth and Income Fund Class 529-A$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ EuroPacific Growth Fund, Class 529-A Shares (CEU$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ New World Fund, Inc., Class 529-A Shares (CNWAX)$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., Class 529-A Shares (C$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ The Bond Fund of America, Class 529-A Shares (CF$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class 529-A Shares (C$1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ The Income Fund of America, Class 529-A Shares ($1k – $15k

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. 529 Plan ⇒ The Investment Company of America, Class 529-A S$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ Capital Income Builder Class 529-A Shares (CIRAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ Capital World Growth and Income Fund Class 529-A Shar$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ EuroPacific Growth Fund, Class 529-A Shares (CEUAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ Fundamental Investors, Class 529-A Shares (CFNAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ SMALLCAP World Fund, Inc., Class 529-A Shares (CSPAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ The Bond Fund of America, Class 529-A Shares (CFAAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class 529-A Shares (CGFAX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ The Income Fund of America, Class 529-A Shares (CIMAX$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 1 ⇒ The Investment Company of America, Class 529-A Shares$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC1, account 2 ⇒ American Balanced Fund, Class 529-C Shares (CLBCX)$1k – $15k

Morgan Stanley 529, DC2, account 1 ⇒ American Funds Growth Portfolio Class 529-C (CGPCX)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.38

Healthcare

D+0.64

Immigration & Border

D+0.77

Guns

D+0.89

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.71

Crime & Policing

D+0.18

Defense & Veterans

D+0.10

Economy & Labor

D+0.57

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.13

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.88

Education

D+0.36

Government & Democracy

D+0.67

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.57

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Jimmy Panetta's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

91%Closest

Green Party

83%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

79%

Communist Party USA

77%

Libertarian Party

57%

Republican Party

39%

On the political map

Jimmy Panetta (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Panettasits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Trade

Most and least aligned members

Treating Panetta's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.