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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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Jul 13, 2022

Yes, an abortion is a procedure. It's a medical procedure that individuals undergo for a wide range of circumstances, including because they have been sexually assaulted, raped in the case of the 10-year-old.

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Jul 13, 2022

It is about MAGA Republicans who want to control not just women, but little girls and to put us into an era of government-mandated pregnancies.

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Jul 13, 2022

So yesterday, Ms. Warbelow, speaking of disinformation, Jim Jordan called a 10-year-old rape victim a liar.

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Jul 13, 2022

Do you think a 10-year-old should choose to carry a baby?

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Jul 13, 2022

Materials submitted by the Honorable Eric Swalwell, a Member of the Committee on the Judiciary from the State of California, for the record

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Jun 14, 2022

I have found you have to keep this guy on his heels. When he is on his heels, that is when he is held accountable, that is when he is at the weakest.

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Jun 14, 2022

Donald Trump looks guilty after all of this evidence not more innocent.

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Jun 13, 2022

Eric Swalwell says the Republicans won't stop with banning abortion, they want to ban interracial marriage.

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Jun 7, 2022

This was led by Donald Trump. That he conceived it. He aimed a mob violently at the Capitol in the attempt to take away every American`s vote.

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Jun 7, 2022

To understand, Lawrence, that America was not attacked. America is under attack.

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Jun 2, 2022

To my Republican colleagues, I asked, Who are you here for? Are you here for our kids? Or are you here for the killers?

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Jun 2, 2022

Nineteen kids are dead, 19 children are dead. And so, to my Republican colleagues, I ask, who are you here for? Are you here for our kids? Or, are you here for the killers? Because if you were here for the kids, you do all you could to…

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Jun 1, 2022

To my Republican colleagues, I ask, who are you here for? Are you here for our kids? Or are you here for the killers?

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Jun 1, 2022

They absolutely do, Joy, but not the Republicans in Congress.

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Jun 1, 2022

If you`re not there for the kids, if you don`t want to raise to age 21 on buying an assault weapon, if you don`t want to have a Safe Storage Act, and if you don`t believe in going after ghost guns, and you don`t believe in banning…

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May 31, 2022

This investigation is important because it’s happening now and it shows when there is an honor system, when there’s a rule of law, that you can find the truth and hold people accountable, which is the opposite of a cronyism, corrupt system…

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May 31, 2022

It’s clear that this investigation is beginning to surface as they would call it. Meaning, you know, through a subpoena like this, they are showing progress. They are seeking to prove a conspiracy by linking co-conspirators to their…

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May 31, 2022

I promise you, these guys, they learned their lesson once when they transferred power. It was not a peaceful transition, it was a violent transition. And their aim -- the Trump, the MAGA Republican aim, is to never again have to transfer…

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May 31, 2022

And look, we know that this crime started at the very top when Donald Trump propagated the big lie, aimed a mob at the Capitol, and then had others lined in cover up for him so it would be very fitting if that’s what the prosecution ended…

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May 18, 2022

We know there currently are over 17,000 pending clemency petitions stuck in that backlog.

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May 18, 2022

I joined Congresswoman Pressley and two of our Republican colleagues, Representatives Joyce and Armstrong, in a letter to the Pardon Attorney requesting disaggregated demographic data on the clemency application backlog.

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May 17, 2022

These guys do not belong at the kitchen table of any woman in American as she makes this very personal decision.

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May 17, 2022

It's a decision for our family that we don't want the government to be a part of at all.

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May 16, 2022

Your solutions are common sense. They're doable and, as a Democratic Member of Congress, it doesn't reek of any partisanship.

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May 16, 2022

It would seem to me that if it's good enough for European babies it would be good enough for the FDA.

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