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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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Jun 29, 2021

We've seen at the Trump rallies the attacks on the media.

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Jun 28, 2021

We face a range of natural hazards and we found that climate change is exasperating many of these disasters and the effects.

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Jun 28, 2021

Thank you to FEMA for standing up its Oakland Coliseum vaccination site where thousands of Bay Area residents were vaccinated.

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Jun 22, 2021

What can we do as Members of Congress to help the Coast Guard recruit the best and brightest, particularly those that come from disadvantaged backgrounds or minority communities?

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Jun 22, 2021

Will you undergo a new report or a new study to generate a new report?

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Jun 15, 2021

To honor Donald Trump, you now have to dishonor the police. That’s the only explanation I have for it.

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Jun 15, 2021

So now we have a Republican Party, you know, today by the way over double digits voted against recognizing Juneteenth. So it’s a pro-slavery, anti-police party that is rolling with the cop killers right now.

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Jun 15, 2021

They would have killed my colleagues.

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Jun 14, 2021

No chance, Ali. You`re absolutely right. And Barr in that exchange looked like my 4-year-old last night when I asked him if he had eaten a cookie and he had crumbs all over his mouth. He looked guilty in that response, and now we need to…

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Jun 14, 2021

If he comes back as president or if one of his wannabe cronies gets into office, we have to make sure that we have rules and regulations that never let anyone get this close, as close as he did, again.

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Jun 14, 2021

John Dean said 50 years ago that there’s a cancer on the presidency. Well, over the last four years, we saw that the actual cancer was the president. Whether it was the rule of law, our system of justice, or even our democracy, Donald…

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Jun 14, 2021

Presidents set the tone for the country, and the tone Donald Trump sent was one of being a bully and of phony tough guy, but that has presented and manifested itself in the way that everyday Americans are acting, right? You’re seeing the…

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Jun 13, 2021

If this was just concerned over leaks, and that's where they were, you know, that led them to you and to Adam Schiff, and Don McGahn. Is that OK?

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Jun 13, 2021

We can't let a future more corrupt, more competent president come along, and do this.

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Jun 13, 2021

Of course, and that's right out of the Donald Trump legal terrorist playbook that we saw during his administration.

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Jun 13, 2021

It feels pretty damn targeted by the department and should be investigated.

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Jun 13, 2021

The concern is not just the targeting of his political opponents, but the trickledown effect, our local elected officials feeling emboldened by this, and are they targeting their political enemies locally?

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Jun 13, 2021

Donald Trump from the very beginning, set a tone for bullying, and a phony tough guy image. And we see that reflected in everyday life today, whether it's people throwing bottles at NBA players, insulting healthcare workers, the breakdown…

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Jun 11, 2021

I hope every prosecutor who was involved in this is thrown out of the department. It crosses the line of what we do, as a country.

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Jun 11, 2021

If we don`t take steps to make sure this doesn`t happen again, we could really see the erosion, the complete erosion of the rule of law in our country.

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Jun 11, 2021

This is not about Adam Schiff and myself. It`s about a president rewarding his friends corruptly through the Department of Justice, as he did with Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, and punishing his perceived enemies.

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Jun 11, 2021

It cannot go on like this. The abuses were so great the threat to the country`s rule of law, the Democratic self-government is so severe that to let it go unrecognized and are reckoned with will bring some kind of cataclysm.

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Jun 11, 2021

I think we`ve shown through two impeachments a willingness to hold Donald Trump accountable. Donald Trump thinks he`s going to be reinstated in August. He`s running for reelection in 2024. You have a number of wannabe Donald Trump`s who…

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Jun 10, 2021

I was notified, Don, by Apple that they did seize my records. It`s wrong. This is what they do. They smear and they try and clear.

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