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On the recordJune 6, 2023
Why is this hearing happening? It's because it's a part of a corrupt bargain, a dirty deal that allows Speaker McCarthy to stay in power.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

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Swalwell criticizes the timing of the hearing as politically motivated.

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This is the person who you all chose to hang out with this morning, delaying the original start time of our hearing, because rather than getting work done for people who need us to work, you chose a felon over helping families.

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I'm truly sorry that this has happened to your loved ones and the persons responsible for the deaths... should die in jail and then rot in hell.

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I don't view this hearing as a shaming of any particular company but, rather, an opportunity to learn from mistakes in the past.

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They don't seem to understand that they were elected to serve their constituents, not the disgraced, twice impeached, and now convicted leader of the party.

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