If we don’t show up, Democracy dies.
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Swalwell emphasizes the importance of protest for preserving democracy.
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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.
I don't understand why we're here, because for the longest time, as long as I've been alive, and I'm the son of two Republicans so I've heard this in my household a lot, you're the party of free markets.
That's what he was willing to do in his first administration, where there were guardrails in place and serious [pushback] around him.
I don't view this hearing as a shaming of any particular company but, rather, an opportunity to learn from mistakes in the past.





