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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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Sep 17, 2017

So, if this is in fact true, that's encouraging. They're using every legal means available to understand what the relationships were between Donald Trump's campaign chairman and other associates and even perhaps candidate Trump at the time…

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Sep 17, 2017

The Russians were determined and sophisticated in the way that they interfered with our elections and we want our investigators to be just as determined and sophisticated in the way that they unravel what the Russians did.

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Sep 11, 2017

I just want to, before we begin, wish well my colleague, Hank Johnson, and others who were in Irma's path.

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Jul 26, 2017

Do you foresee, as we look at making sure that drugs can get to the market... that there is a special category, though, for those types of drugs?

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Jul 26, 2017

Do you believe that all REMs are created equally?

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Jul 26, 2017

The beauty of our democracy is that I sat here for hours yesterday, and I think I disagreed with 100 percent of the things that Mr. Gaetz said yesterday. But today I sit here, and I agree 100 percent with what he just said.

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Jul 26, 2017

The CREATES Act addresses these delay tactics by creating a tailored path for generic drug manufacturers to obtain the samples that are necessary to bring low cost drugs to market.

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Jul 26, 2017

I'm extremely proud of my work with Chairman Marino and our introduction of H.R. 2122, the CREATES Act, a targeted solution to reduce drugs prices by increasing generic competition.

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Jul 26, 2017

The American people deserve a government that is in their corner fighting for them to take on drug profiteering and price hikes.

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Jul 20, 2017

I think Attorney General Sessions should step down, given tonight's breaking new news, which cast doubt on the attorney general past statements on contact with Russians.

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Jul 20, 2017

We have to tell the country that the so what is that our democracy has been undermined by a foreign adversary and we have to do everything now as leaders in Congress to never put our country in a position like this again.

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Jul 20, 2017

I think he should come before our committee. We should be able to have access to all of the evidence so that we can again confront him with it to see just what is the truth.

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Jul 20, 2017

For all of those reasons, so that the Justice Department can function without this chaos, I don't think he should any longer be the attorney general.

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Jul 20, 2017

The Senate should not recess or do anything that would allow a recess appointment to take place. They should ensure that whoever would be appointed next, if he does step down, is somebody who is going to allow the Russia investigation to…

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Jul 20, 2017

This is a time for Congress to thoughtfully and aggressively put a check on this president.

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Jul 20, 2017

Attorney general Sessions should no longer serve, I believe for other reasons. He's already lost the trust of the American people. He wasn't forthcoming about his contacts with Russia as they were interfering in our campaign. He…

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Jul 9, 2017

Well, Anderson, the fact that we have an investigation and the FBI has an investigation shows that there is evidence of collusion.

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Jul 9, 2017

I certainly support our ranking member. We want to interview all relevant witnesses. And what we want to find out with any witness that was talking with Russians during the interference campaign is, what was the nature of the relationship…

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Jul 9, 2017

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, Anderson, to receive damaging information from a representative of a foreign adversary, that's a betrayal of our country.

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Jun 8, 2017

I think that's inappropriate and I hope that he stops doing that because we still need to work with him on non-Russia related matters and he needs to have credibility when we do that.

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Jun 8, 2017

We are seeking these voluntarily right now. That's always the best way in an investigation is to have cooperation.

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Jun 8, 2017

There are also, John, other witnesses who will be relevant here. Jeff Sessions apparently was in the room. Jared Kushner was in the room.

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Jun 8, 2017

This is a serious investigation. He was standing in quite a prestigious place, the Rose Garden. And he was asked, are there tapes?

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Jun 8, 2017

It appears that the president may have just made it to be deceitful, as he did against President Obama.

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