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Eric Swalwell: “I want to again thank my colleague from the Baltimore area in Maryland. I want to ask Congressman Kilmer. The Future…”

On the recordFebruary 10, 2016
I want to again thank my colleague from the Baltimore area in Maryland. I want to ask Congressman Kilmer. The Future Forum went to Seattle. We visited college campuses in the Tacoma and Seattle area. We went to a couple of the big businesses in your area with a millennial workforce. We heard in Tacoma the same thing that we heard when we went to the Manchester, New Hampshire, area and the same thing that we heard in the Dallas area, which is that millennials just think that the system is rigged and there is no reason to participate. The numbers show that. Roughly 22 percent of the eligible millennials showed up to vote in 2014. What are you hearing in the Seattle area about this issue?
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California
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Feb 10, 2016

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