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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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Oct 18, 2021

We need more people like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger. They had Republicans in their districts overwhelmingly telling them not to accept the outcome of the election, and they followed their conscience.

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Oct 18, 2021

The Democrats cannot allow the people who encouraged, planned and carried out the January 6th insurrection to get away with it.

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Oct 11, 2021

It`s all the more reason that we need to continue to see an aggressive January 6 bipartisan commission pursue the ground truth of what happened that day. But I`m afraid that sometimes when letters like this come out, we have a tendency to…

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Oct 11, 2021

We`re back in session tomorrow. I`m confident that we`re going to have a deal very soon.

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Oct 8, 2021

If he was innocent, he would cooperate. The reason he`s not cooperating is because he does not have an innocent explanation for his conduct that day, plain and simple.

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Oct 8, 2021

We are squarely in extra innings.

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Oct 8, 2021

And I cannot stress enough to our president that getting the Senate to break the filibuster to pass voting rights, we have to do that in extra innings.

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Sep 24, 2021

the best thing we can do, Lawrence, is to continue to shine a light on all of the falsities that Donald Trump and the election denier party, the Republicans continue to put out there.

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Sep 24, 2021

There is no sweeping under the rug for what Donald Trump did.

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Sep 24, 2021

That commission does not have the same pressures of time or the pressure of the Senate that the impeachment managers had.

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Sep 24, 2021

I trust her with the shot at the buzzer.

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Sep 21, 2021

Certainly, there is nothing more important to us than the health and safety of our own work force.

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Sep 21, 2021

We have significant budget requests that have come before the Congress that are pending as part of a 5-year cyber strategy that I unveiled last September.

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Sep 17, 2021

Their silence is complicit. It makes them complicit.

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Sep 17, 2021

You have to expose them for the lies that they are. So that the voters know every day that January 6th was not a peaceful demonstration. It was a violent day and we can’t let that be erased from history.

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Sep 17, 2021

Two twin deadly lies right now coming from the Republicans literally killing us and costing us financially.

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Sep 17, 2021

The Republican Party is holding a celebration for cop killers. They’re celebrating cop killers tomorrow at our nation’s capital.

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Sep 17, 2021

There’s a cost for the radicalization that the Republicans have put out there to their voters.

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Sep 12, 2021

And if he wants to be president, it`s the insurrectionist party now, and he`s going to need their support.

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Sep 12, 2021

Well, I don`t love any would-be insurrectionist`s heart, Joy. And I wish our former vice president wouldn`t either.

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Sep 12, 2021

He never once spoke up, again, he was another one where privately he`d want to talk to you, he`d want to joke with you.

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Sep 12, 2021

Former President George H.W. Bush has likened these domestic extremists, who are mainly white nationalist extremists, to al Qaeda.

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Sep 12, 2021

If you are able to marry that up with more law enforcement officers, that creates a dangerous environment.

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Sep 12, 2021

It really concerns me, because we need to know that there is no inside threat, because we already have an inside threat from the pro-coup, pro-insurrectionist members of Congress.

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Sep 8, 2021

Tell me you were involved in the January 6th insurrection without actually telling me you were involved in the January 6th insurrection.

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