Eric Swalwell

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.

You should have the right to learn, the right to go home, and the right to live in your classrooms.

I do not know why Parkland changed the way that our country started to look at this.

This is not a partisan concern. This is about whether or not we are a healthy democracy, and it is an embarrassment and a disgrace that we compel people to spend four hours standing on a line to exercise their right as citizens to…

I cannot imagine how we can think it is positive that in Harris County the election judge had to extend the polling place hours because people had to stand in line so long because the machines were malfunctioning.

I cannot imagine how anyone could think that voters waiting on line in the morning for four hours in Gwinnett County, Georgia, because the machines lacked the power cords, how anyone could think that was a good thing.

Might I say I witnessed firsthand voter suppression in the state of Georgia, having come through those very elections in November.

It is rigged gerrymandered maps where politicians from both parties protect their friends and the status quo.

I want to associate myself with the remarks of Congresswoman Bass about the sort of very disappointing positions of two of our witnesses...

Republican opposition to these reforms... is obvious because they benefit from this broken system, as do their donors and their super PACs.

This bill will return power to the people and restore our democracy. It will help us clean up the culture of corruption in Washington and focus on making sure our government works for the people of this country.

It is so important that we pass H.R. 1, which will repair our democracy by restoring real power to the people of this country and away from the special interests and powerful corporations.

Yet, we know that many states continue to erect barriers to voting and that is why we enthusiastically support H.R. 1.

This committee has done it before. In 2006, Congressman Sensenbrenner led a successful effort to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and we need you to do so again.

A strong democracy should not be a partisan issue. Americans must have faith in their democracy and it is up to Democrats and Republicans to restore integrity and legitimacy to our institutions.

It is past time to build a 21st century democracy that represents our growing and diverse nation--a democracy that welcomes every person's voice and participation--because for too long voter suppression has been a shameful reality in our…

So I think we have an opportunity in this bill, the 'For the People Act,' to empower everyday voices.

I am afraid about how I am going to be scored.

I have concluded that it is the dirty maps and the dirty money.

But my constituents ask and people I encounter across the country always ask, if we have reached consensus where 90 percent of Americans think we should have background checks, the majority of Americans believe that climate change is…

To me, it's because they want to protect the underlying questions which is, did the President have knowledge of what the Russians were doing? Was he seeking business deals while he was running for President? And did he obstruct and try and…

I think he is intending to keep Michael Cohen from coming in. At this point, I think because we are waiting for the Mueller report, we're doing our own investigations with respect to obstruction of justice and collusion, I don't think we…

We want to find out if the President is financially compromised by the Russians through lending, you know, lending from Deutsche Bank and money laundering that the Russians may have engaged in.

I don't, because he took two days of heat of people saying who would not be able to deny it if they were confronted with it.

The urgent concern, Anderson, is that today as we speak our President is still working with the Russians.