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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 30, 2024

I'd also like to congratulate CISA on the publication of the NPRM. It's an important milestone and an enormous undertaking.

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Apr 30, 2024

Personally, Congressman Payne and I were both elected in the class of 2012. I sat next to him on this committee for all of my going-on-12 years in Congress. He will be greatly missed by Members of this committee, as we send out our most…

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Apr 30, 2024

Moving forward, it is imperative that CISA strongly consider and incorporate feedback from the private sector.

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Apr 30, 2024

It is an example of the Biden Administration doing the work that a President has been elected to do, to keep Americans safe.

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Apr 30, 2024

It's not actually about proving a first amendment violation. What the Republicans want to do with this Committee... is they want to chill the government from actually interacting with the private companies as we come on an election in…

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Apr 30, 2024

I would like to thank the Chairman for giving the subcommittee the opportunity to hear from the private sector on CISA's proposed cyber incident reporting rule--the agency's most significant undertaking since it was established.

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Apr 30, 2024

I hope we can continue to work together with the private sector and on this committee to do big things like passing important legislation that will improve how the Federal Government collaborates with the private sectors by authorizing the…

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Apr 30, 2024

These conspiracy theories were downright dangerous.

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Apr 30, 2024

The Government is entitled to speak for itself.

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Apr 30, 2024

As one recently told me who was a Fortune 100 CISO, he said, when an attack happens now, rather than respond to the attack, the first thing that you do is, you huddle all of the lawyers, and you're losing precious response time because…

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Apr 30, 2024

Although Congressman Payne did not sit on this subcommittee, he had an important impact on CISA, the agency we oversee.

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Apr 30, 2024

It's not about Speaker Johnson's job, it's about doing the job every day that Americans expect us to do, which is to get things done.

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Apr 30, 2024

I also share Chairman Garbarino's frustration with duplicative cyber incident reporting requirements, particularly with the SEC's unworkable rule and unrealistic rule.

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Apr 30, 2024

If chaos agents like Marjorie Taylor Greene and others want to just send us -- and descend us back into chaos at the expense of getting things done, I do agree with our Democratic leadership that we should avoid that.

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Apr 30, 2024

I thank the Chairman for giving our subcommittee an opportunity to hear from the private sector on CISA's proposed cyber incident reporting rule which is the agency's, frankly, most significant undertaking since it was established.

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Apr 15, 2024

It's these very efforts to keep people safe that our MAGA colleagues want to paint as tyrannical here today.

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Apr 15, 2024

Well, again, Mr. Secretary, thank you for what you do. We are grateful that you are in the chair that you are in.

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Apr 15, 2024

We seem to go wherever the former President wants us to go, if that is on border policy, if that is on funding Ukraine.

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Apr 15, 2024

Instead, our Republican colleagues want to rehash old culture wars and sow mistrust in public health...

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Apr 15, 2024

At a time when a majority of the public, 62 percent, disapproves of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe, Congress must pass the Women's Health Protection Act to enshrine this fundamental freedom into law.

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Apr 15, 2024

I find it very disturbing that the majority in its effort to cast legitimate public health measures as tyranny, just showed a very misleading video in which they also tried to blame the Biden Administration for actions which were…

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Apr 15, 2024

It seems like it was more the former President wanted us to do this and so Speaker Johnson did it.

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Apr 15, 2024

From experience in my community, I know that our public health leaders' decisions, especially early on in the pandemic, saved countless lives.

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