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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 1, 2020

It's really sort of exposed the kind of laissez-faire attitude in Washington toward testing.

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Oct 1, 2020

So, if the president is healthy and able, I think, every day, demonstrating that is a good thing.

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Sep 30, 2020

Free speech should not be a Republican or Democrat issue. It is a matter at the very heart of our democracy.

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Sep 30, 2020

I want to thank Ranking Member Sensenbrenner, former Chairman Sensenbrenner, for his decades of work in the United States Congress for the American people.

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Sep 30, 2020

I hope we can move on in a bipartisan basis.

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Sep 29, 2020

May I inquire how much time is remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 5 minutes remaining.

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Sep 29, 2020

May I inquire how many more speakers the minority floor manager has remaining.

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Sep 29, 2020

We want you to do what you love, too, because we love listening to it and being entertained by it.

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Sep 29, 2020

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3 of House Resolution 965, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed…

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Sep 23, 2020

It's really incumbent on people like Mitt Romney and others. Hopefully they can be honorable and recognize they actually have power and leverage over the president.

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Sep 23, 2020

Yes, but not only an army of lawyers who beneath the surface are working to ensure access to the ballot box. But we have an army of voters, women who marched the day after the inauguration, the March for Our Lives generation who came out…

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Sep 15, 2020

Imagine if he commanded this great country and our manufacturers to produce the protective equipment and the testing so that our teachers and students could be tested once a week and our kids would be in-person learning right now.

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Sep 15, 2020

This president, as you know, though, he has downplayed the effects of the virus. He has not played at all when it comes to coming to Congress and working with us to collaborate to address the testing, the tracing and, of course, the funds…

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Sep 14, 2020

Isn't Roger Stone who Trump was literally tweeting about during the trial saying, have the guts not to testify?

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Sep 10, 2020

He chooses Russia for who is responsible for interfering in the election and takes their side.

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Sep 10, 2020

The problem, though, that I see is that even if you have good-natured, hardworking people with integrity, if they don't have leadership at the top -- meaning from the president and other folks -- they are going to do their job and keep…

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Sep 10, 2020

It's an orange glow in the Bay Area. It's an ominous warning that we have to act on climate.

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Sep 10, 2020

Everything we learn in these books from Michael Cohen or Peter Strzok, or Michael Schmidt's reporting, or even Bob Woodward's book, it all points toward guilt.

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Sep 10, 2020

I am concerned that we don't know what we need to know about Donald Trump to protect the country from what Russia has on him.

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Sep 10, 2020

This is not a hypothetical, theoretical example of somebody being compromised and acting as an agent.

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Aug 31, 2020

But with this president, as you know, corruption is a reflex. And in 2016, while the Russians were trying to corrupt our democracy and the intelligence community was playing catch up, Donald Trump wasn't. He has corrupted individuals. He…

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Aug 31, 2020

The American people must know what the Russians are trying to do. This president is not worthy of being re-elected without a plan for COVID. He has no plan for COVID, and he cannot win an election without Russian interference or sabotaging…

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Aug 31, 2020

We must make sure that we receive unvarnished intelligence assessments from intelligence officials, and right now that is not what we are receiving. They are really playing to an audience of one, the president, and not the American people.

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Jul 27, 2020

your job is only impossible if you enable the President's corrupt schemes.

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Jul 27, 2020

I think you should start reading them, because he said Mr. Stone showed guts.

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