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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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Apr 28, 2019

Again, if the President is 100 percent clear, he should also tell his own attorney general, 'Go down to Congress and tell them I'm 100 percent clear so they can understand what the Russians did.'

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Apr 28, 2019

There are real questions about whether Attorney General Barr is acting as the president's lawyer because of his prior views of the Mueller investigation.

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Apr 14, 2019

We want to know if the President or anyone in his family is financially compromised not just to the Russians.

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Apr 14, 2019

The President knows what he did, who his team worked with, and the efforts he took to obstruct.

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Apr 14, 2019

If the President is 100 percent exonerated, he should just order the full report.

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Apr 14, 2019

the fact that they are unwilling to just tell the attorney general to release everything shows a consciousness of guilt.

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Apr 2, 2019

just because he's not been criminally charged does not mean that there's not wrongdoing or that he didn't rise to the level of conduct that we'd want from a presidential candidate or from someone who's serving in the office.

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Apr 2, 2019

The Republicans should go with their gut instinct. They voted before anyone knew what the report would show, to release it fully to the public, 420-0, they joined Democrats.

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Apr 2, 2019

this is not an ordinary citizen. This is the president of the United States, and we should all know especially a public that paid for this investigation what the investigation produced.

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Apr 2, 2019

we believe in the rule of law, and we believe that there's an honor code in America, which is that you follow a process of traditions and customs.

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Apr 2, 2019

The Barr letter and his actions demonstrate that he's going to continue to protect the president and it's going to insulate him from us being able to know who he drew it through the election.

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Mar 26, 2019

But there are thousands and thousands of other people who deserve them, too, and they haven't gotten them.

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Mar 26, 2019

In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion.

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Mar 26, 2019

his exercise of the power has been commendable in some instances--yes, that goes back to the celebrity's friend and my constituent, Alice Marie Johnson--

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Feb 27, 2019

This obsession with a wall, which will be funded at the expense of our military, is heartbreaking to me.

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Feb 27, 2019

That was an important first step in reasserting Congress' role as a check against President Trump's unlimited appetite for power.

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Feb 27, 2019

No President should have that kind of unlimited power. That is what is at stake here.

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Feb 27, 2019

We have an obligation to solve this in a compassionate, humanitarian way, but, again, this is not new, this is not an emergency.

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Feb 27, 2019

We are turning away asylum seekers at our ports. We are driving them to places that are more treacherous and dangerous.

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Feb 27, 2019

Today, we tell our fellow Americans that their children's right to learn without fear; that their own right to dance at a concert, worship at a synagogue, shop at the mall; that all those rights to come home, to live, and to love are…

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Feb 7, 2019

That the President doesn't follow. But have there been discussions about pardons for those individuals that you are aware of, yes or no?

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Feb 5, 2019

Thank you to Mike Thompson, my colleague, who has continued to believe that we can do better and that we can start with background checks.

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Feb 5, 2019

After six years, from Sandy Hook to Pulse to Charleston and all the cities we have come to learn, we saw moments of silence followed by moments of inaction.

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