Eric Swalwell: “I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. I thank my colleagues from California, Colorado, and from Pennsylvania. Mr.…”

“I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts. I thank my colleagues from California, Colorado, and from Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I will close by saying, as Mr. Moulton alluded to, our principal responsibility can be found in, literally, the first sentence of the Constitution, which is: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union . . . to provide for the common defense of the United States. There is no agency that has a harder job or a job that is more important in protecting our homeland than the Department of Homeland Security. We should be here today, on our first evening of the Future Forum, talking about the rising amount of student debt that millennials carry. We should be here today talking about how hard it is to get a job if you are a young person and if you have just finished college. We should be here today talking about how hard it is to buy a home if you are carrying all of this student debt. We should be talking about the need for diversity and about having a pathway to citizenship for immigration. Instead, bizarrely, we are here talking about the real possibility that the Department of Homeland Security, created out of a bipartisan coalition in the early 2000s, could shut down and leave us more vulnerable. I hope that our better angels will guide us.…”