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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 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 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

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

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

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Sep 17, 2021

Their silence is complicit. It makes them complicit.

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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 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

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

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 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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Aug 30, 2021

We have to organize, mobilize and overcome every barrier at the ballot box next November, Joy, because democracy nearly died on January 6th.

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Aug 30, 2021

He should face the consequences for what he has said, and I think Speaker Pelosi is considering that, and that's what her statement reflects. And this is why Kevin McCarthy cannot be speaker. He is not responsible enough to break from…

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Aug 30, 2021

Democracy nearly died on January 6th. I was there and that was the overwhelming feeling that I and others had on the floor.

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Aug 10, 2021

No, Joy, I don`t. And we look at many of our colleagues and believe that had they not been in Congress on January 6, they would have been on the other side of the door right next to Ashli Babbitt. And so I`m not working with them. I`m…

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Aug 10, 2021

To want to out this person after being cleared is only intended to put that person's life in danger.

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Aug 10, 2021

The lie that the election was stolen has taken the lives of many police officers and the lie that vaccines do not work also propagated by Tucker Carlson, Kevin McCarthy and, you know, those guys in the Republican Party, it`s killing…

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Aug 10, 2021

I`m working to replace them from Congress. That`s the replacement theory that I`m all in for, is to make sure they don`t come back in 2023.

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Aug 10, 2021

That officer's life, sadly, is in danger. He is a hero, Joy. I am alive today and my colleagues are alive because he had to make that fateful decision, one that no officer wants to make but a mob was crashing through the doors into the…

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Jul 28, 2021

The heroism of those officers always is a part of the story of America and not erased as some in Congress are trying to do.

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Jul 28, 2021

We're not asking Tucker Carlson to put on the body armor and go in hand-to-hand combat with the insurrectionists as Mike Fonone and Daniel Hodges and Harry Dunn and Sargent Gonell did that day.

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Jul 21, 2021

Speaker Pelosi recognizes that democracy is on life support. And this is very binary, either your pot off the team that is trying to resurrected, we are trying to pull the plug.

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Jul 21, 2021

How much does it help when a business reports to you that they have been attacked?

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