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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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Feb 24, 2021

We absolutely do need changes to the law.

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Feb 24, 2021

I represent a constituency in the San Francisco Bay area with entrepreneurs who want to know that as they seek to have innovative solutions that they are going to have a fair playing field.

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Feb 23, 2021

Last year, Governors reported that they had limited information from the Federal Government about when vaccines would become available.

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Feb 23, 2021

Many of us gathered last evening on the Capitol steps, House Members and Senators. We remembered the 500,000 COVID victims that we have lost.

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Feb 11, 2021

Uncertain what would happen next, I sent a text message to my wife: 'I love you and the babies. Please hug them for me.'

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Feb 10, 2021

On December 19th, at 1:42 in the morning, our commander in chief tweeted, big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there. Will be wild.

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Feb 10, 2021

If a Democrat presidential candidate had an election rigged and stolen, with proof of such acts at a level never seen before, the Democrat senators would consider it an act of war and fight to the death.

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Feb 9, 2021

At 2:44 p.m., Ashli Babbitt attempted to climb through a shattered window into the House lobby. To protect the members in the lobby, an officer discharged his weapon and she was killed.

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Feb 9, 2021

You know how close you came to the mob. Some of you, I understand, could hear them. But most of the public does not know how close these rioters came to you.

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Jan 12, 2021

They understand that by doing this, the president endangered life and sought to really reduce democracy.

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Jan 12, 2021

It demonstrates that there's an urgency here to get Donald Trump out of office to protect life.

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Jan 8, 2021

We're going to do it because it could lead to his removal if there's enough courage in the Senate.

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Jan 8, 2021

We prefer, Lawrence, for the president to step aside. We know he won't do that. If that's not going to happen, we prefer for the vice president to step up and show some courage and invoke the 25th amendment. We know he probably won't do…

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Dec 3, 2020

The virus hasn't quit. The hunger hasn't quit. The bread lines and the food lines haven't quit. And the unemployment lines haven't quit. And so, we can't quit. We have to get this deal passed.

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Dec 3, 2020

Well, Joy, it's never too late to just do what's right. And I will say, Joy, that if you didn't believe in wearing masks a couple weeks ago, and you have adopted now, great. If you mixed families a couple weeks ago, and you recognize that…

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Dec 1, 2020

You have not denounced this violent language that goes to the point of one of the president's lawyers, Joe diGenova, saying publicly in a talk show that Chris Krebs should be shot and killed.

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Nov 20, 2020

It's time for ascertainment. It's time for transition, Lawrence. But I'm going to go at this a little bit differently because I want to believe everything that you just read that sources are saying about Emily Murphy, that she's a…

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Nov 20, 2020

Lawrence, people will die every day that this transition is delayed. And the greatest challenge of our lifetime will be to go from vaccine to vaccination. They're not the same thing.

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Nov 20, 2020

It's time to prove your friends right and do the right thing. And when you do that, you're going to join the company of people like Chris Krebs, the Homeland Security official who was just fired, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman and…

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Nov 17, 2020

Democracies are fragile, you have to work on them, and, third, and most importantly, you have to protect them.

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Nov 17, 2020

The Homeland Security official who was fired, his job was to secure the election, not to secure Donald Trump's reelection.

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Nov 17, 2020

I read a piece, Representative Swalwell, in 'USA Today' that talked about the death threats on Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who we just had on the show in the previous -- before the previous break, saying that Republicans understand that…

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Nov 17, 2020

Now they look at us, and they see a firing like this today, and they see three things. One, democracies are fragile, you have to work on them, and, third, and most importantly, you have to protect them.

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Nov 17, 2020

Look, Donald Trump cannot fire his way out of defeat. He cannot sue his way to victory. It is over. This virus is beating us. And it's going to take more and more lives if my Republican colleagues can't find the nerve and the spine to…

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Nov 10, 2020

And you know who also gets it? Georgia voters, because right now they see that this behavior from Republican senators is really telegraphing how they will work with President Biden.

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