Eric Swalwell

The Attorney General purports to place a high priority on fighting crime, but threatens to withhold much-needed Justice Department funding from the very agencies that are on the front line in protecting all of us.

Let me be clear: Attorney General Sessions should not substitute his judgement for that of law enforcement in local jurisdictions, who know what it is best to keep their community safe.

The White House is not an internet cafe where you can walk in and receive classified information.

I don't think it's legitimate because the witnesses were already to go. They sent over their testimony. And, you know, the American people I think felt they were finally let in last week and they wanted to learn more about what Russia did…

Three hearings this week cancelled. We're supposed to have just a regular order meeting tonight, cancelled. One on Thursday, cancelled. And we're supposed to have on tomorrow, an open hearing, and he said that we should have the closed…

I do. We were working together. We were going down an investigative road together and we made progress. Last week, of course, we had our open hearing. FBI director confirmed a lot of our concerns. The chairman exited that road to work with…

If they are a convergence of personal, political and financial ties with Russia's interference campaign, people should be held accountable.

I think this is just another smoke bomb that they're rolling into this investigation to prevent us from making progress.

Where did he receive this information? From our knowledge, no one on his staff and no other members were a part of this, so that meant it had to be outside of the Capitol. So did he go to another agency and does that mean that the White…

I feel that the White House has ignored this important policy, and that further investigation by the Inspector General is warranted.

We know that the White House Chief of Staff has called the Deputy Director of the FBI, asking them to come and publicly knock down reports he did not like.

Let me be clear: I do not condone the leaks of classified information to the press, but the President has gone out of his way to intimidate virtually any individual hoping to expose misconduct in the Trump administration.

Without the Affordable Care Act, Terri tells us she would never have received the preventive care that she credits for saving her life.

What I appreciate about the Affordable Care Act is that, each year, before the Affordable Care Act, my team... would have to look at how astronomically high the coverage costs have been.

This landmark legislation has even saved the lives of people like Terri, one of my constituents from Dublin, California.

And when you're implying that someone is incapable of rendering impartial justice because of the color of their skin, I think you've got trouble.

I support increased transparency of the judiciary.

An independent judiciary is critical, of course, to our Nation's constitutional system of checks and balances.

I hope my friends on the other side of the aisle will join me today in condemning President Trump's comments threatening the legitimacy of our judicial branch.

Regarding the question considered earlier today on passage of H.R. 3957, the Emergency Citrus Disease Response Act of 2016 (Rollcall No. 528), I am recorded as voting ``no.'' I intended to vote ``yes.'' ____________________

People at home are terrified about Zika, and for good reason.

I'm still hopeful that our Chairman Lamar Smith, who supported the bill, and Majority Leader McCarthy, who also supported this bipartisan bill, will bring it back.

That is right. Another bill we have to support that is the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act, offered by Congressman Cohen of Tennessee, who seeks to address this issue and relieve young people from having to have this follow…

I don't know if you have any constituents who are in bankruptcy because of student loan debt, but we found that three things in this country will follow you to your grave and have no statute of limitations: murder, treason, and student…

That is right. In the bay area, young people are so collaborative and inventive that they have powered this innovative innovation economy. Then they look at Washington and they wonder, why isn't the majority party in the House…