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Eric Swalwell: Well, the Future Forum is a group that has evolved since April, and we are quite interested in engaging with…

On the recordOctober 7, 2015
Well, the Future Forum is a group that has evolved since April, and we are quite interested in engaging with millennials. Again, I would invite people tonight to engage with us on #futureforum, and we will take questions. But this idea of reaching out to a generation that is not necessarily yet engaged in new, innovative ways is older than the Future Forum. It actually started about 10 years ago. And today we have a little bit of a surprise for our Future Forum followers. We are going to welcome some of the original members of the Future Forum who 10 years ago on this House floor redefined what it meant to reach out and talk to the next generation of leaders. So it is my honor, it is my privilege, to first welcome Congressman Tim Ryan of Ohio. Tim said it best in 2005, 10 years ago, when he led the 30-Something Working Group and they took questions on this House floor, as we take them now from Twitter. Congressman Ryan took them via email. He said, ``Being the 30-Something Group, we are trying to take our communications to the next level, trying to reach out to the American people, because we have said for quite some time that if we are going to solve problems in this country, that we have to engage the best and brightest talent that is out in the country in order to do this.'' {time} 1830 Does that sound familiar to the gentleman from Ohio?
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California
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Oct 7, 2015

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