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Eric Swalwell

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Eric Michael Swalwell is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 15th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Swalwell has focused on issues such as gun control, healthcare, and technology policy during his time in office. He gained national attention for his role in the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump and has been an advocate for progressive reforms within the Democratic Party.

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Sep 20, 2023

Well, it was a snub of Zelenskyy who wanted to address the full Congress. It only helps Putin because Putin sees that there's the potential that funding could run out and so he'll grind this war out as long as he can.

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Sep 20, 2023

He needs to choose the country over one criminal, Donald Trump. He needs to choose competence over chaos, and he needs to choose for the first time in his life to be a leader rather than a spectator speaker.

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Sep 20, 2023

No, we should be working, John, for working people. They are the ones who count on us and it's our troops, it's our cops, it is border agents, it's air traffic controllers -- the people we depend on to keep us safe and keep us moving, who…

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Sep 20, 2023

He can be a spectator speaker, or he can be a leader and a leader would go to Democrats, just as Mitch McConnell and Senator Schumer have done in the Senate and say, give us the votes to keep the government open, I'll put it on the bill…

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Sep 20, 2023

Again, I'm here, I'm ready to work. Democrats are ready to give the votes, you know, to keep the government open. But right now, Republicans, you know, they have failed to protect, they've failed to fund and they failed to govern. They are…

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Sep 19, 2023

Your office has made a number of reforms to 702 targeting foreign nationals, but those reforms have not been put into law.

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Sep 19, 2023

Thank you for coming and doing something that the Chair is unwilling to do, testify to Congress.

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Sep 19, 2023

Mr. Swalwell. Mr. Attorney General, my colleague just said that you should be held in contempt of Congress. That is quite rich because the guy who is leaving the hearing room right now, Mr. Jordan, is about 500 days into evading his…

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Sep 19, 2023

It is the difference between one side that believes in governing and one side that believes in ruling.

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Sep 19, 2023

So, I welcome you to the law firm of Insurrection, LLP, where they work every single day on behalf of one client, Donald Trump.

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Sep 19, 2023

I mean, are you serious that Jim Jordan, a witness to one of the greatest crimes ever committed in America, a crime where more prosecutions have occurred than any crime committed in America, refuses to help his country?

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Sep 14, 2023

Donald Trump has no right to incite, he has no right to harass. He has no right to intimidate, Anderson.

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Sep 14, 2023

Kevin McCarthy's problem is his own conference and the deals that he's made, that are now collapsing, and they're collapsing at the expense of the American people who need him to keep government open and functioning.

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Sep 14, 2023

Democrats will show competence in governing and a preference for governing, and Republicans will show continued chaos and a preference for ruling rather than governing.

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Sep 14, 2023

If he's going to, again, bring forward a bill that will lift America's debt ceiling and pay our bills... Democrats will work with him, but if he is just going to allow his conference to act as a law firm on behalf of Donald Trump, then no…

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Sep 14, 2023

This all makes me very nervous for our democracy as we go into this upcoming election to see so much chaos on their side, because democracy is on life support right now.

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Sep 13, 2023

In the last 48 years going back to 1975, the number of Americans killed by a terrorist who crossed the Southern border unlawfully is zero.

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Sep 13, 2023

Yes, there has been an increase in the number of migrants apprehended who are on the 'Terrorist Screening Data Set.'

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Sep 13, 2023

This hearing is purely intended to scare the public, to demonize immigrants, and to score cheap political points as we head toward that next election.

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Sep 13, 2023

The only foreign-born terrorists who cross the Southern border unlawfully were three brothers from Macedonia who came to the United States while Ronald Reagan was President.

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Sep 9, 2023

I left that meeting impressed with the men and women and the effort behind keeping us safe in the skies every day.

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Jul 25, 2023

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle, they don't have solutions. They want the chaos.

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Jul 25, 2023

Border crossings are down despite my MAGA colleagues constantly saying we have an open border which only invites people South of the border to believe that they should try and come here.

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Jul 25, 2023

Your serious job is to secure the border of the greatest country in the world.

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