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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.

Quotes by year · 2013–20251,547 total · peak 2019 (208)
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Jul 17, 2023

Kids have their privacy violated to make a political point.

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Jul 17, 2023

You violate an individual's privacy, you take nonconsensual pictures from that laptop, you use it to weaponize a case against your political opponent.

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Jul 17, 2023

It is worse than an unfortunate outcome. It is violating the privacy of minors.

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Jul 17, 2023

The Judiciary Committee has oversight jurisdiction over a single agency at Health and Human Services, the Office of Refugee Resettlement, and the purpose of this agency is to provide immigrants with humanitarian resources when they enter…

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Jul 17, 2023

This Committee has no credibility because its Chair himself refuses to follow a lawful subpoena.

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Jul 17, 2023

MAGA Republicans cannot win with ideas and so they want to flood the zone this upcoming election with disinformation and a private citizen's nonconsensual nudes.

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Jul 17, 2023

It is not a party of principles. It is a party of violating an individual's privacy to own the libs and try and win an election.

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Jul 17, 2023

Chair Jordan the very next day is using his power as Chair to bring one of the most anti-Semitic witnesses you could possibly bring into Congress.

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Jul 17, 2023

It seems that Jim Jordan thinks the most important thing we can do is to stop the State Department from fighting disinformation.

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Jul 17, 2023

We are approaching 500 days since Chair Jordan has failed to comply with a lawfully issued subpoena.

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Jul 17, 2023

It never gets old that Chair Jordan is complaining about subpoena compliance.

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Jul 11, 2023

It is quite rich to me that you're hearing all of these allegations from somebody who won't even respond to a lawful subpoena.

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Jun 21, 2023

Anyone who defends him is going to be a foot soldier and a footnote in history books that chronicle his corruption.

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Jun 21, 2023

The way I see it, you all are working very hard to take down the bad guys.

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Jun 21, 2023

I actually think, the gratitude of most of my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, for what law enforcement does every day.

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Jun 21, 2023

Impeaching President Biden, which I think is just thoroughly ridiculous

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Jun 21, 2023

The censure of Mr. Schiff I thought was completely inappropriate

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Jun 21, 2023

This is an inappropriate overreach of the authority to do oversight

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Jun 21, 2023

I think a lot of these underlying issues are a little on the silly side

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Jun 21, 2023

The request for that volume of potential documents is ridiculous--talk about unduly burdensome

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Jun 21, 2023

Will the department ever, in your mind--has it ever in the past, will it ever in the future, pierce grand jury secrecy in any investigation because a Republican or a Democrat asks?

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Jun 21, 2023

In addition, will Secretary Mayorkas be freely appearing before the House Judiciary Committee any time soon?

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Jun 21, 2023

Is there a cost when disinformation comes from Congress to the employees at DHS? Do they receive death threats? Are they put in danger?

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Jun 21, 2023

Well, we ultimately learned, in light of the Chair doing it, that Ms. Jankowicz and her family received tens of thousands of death threats because of actions by MAGA individuals, including the Chair, who put that up there, and she had to…

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Jun 21, 2023

We were promised that the crime of the century was coming from John Durham, and then we learned that John Durham took two cases to trial, and he lost both of them.

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