Eric Swalwell

We have seen locally in the cities that I referred to, Dublin and Livermore, that having these types of contracts not only reduce the city's energy bill but the installation of the different types of upgrades that take place and the…

Energy Savings Performance Contracts, or ESPCs, are truly a win-win-win tool for the federal government and the U.S. taxpayer.

One example we should be particularly proud of is the NASA Ames Research Center Project.

Energy Savings Performance Contracts, also known as ESPCs, are truly a win-win-win tool for the Federal Government and the U.S. taxpayer.

No American should live in fear of becoming a victim of a violent hate crime. In my role as the former lead hate crimes prosecutor for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, I saw, firsthand, the devastating impact that hate crimes…

This week marks the 50th annual National Small Business Week, where we recognize the importance of the entrepreneurs and small business owners who work hard to fulfill the promise of the American Dream. I saw this firsthand as a Dublin…

I thank the gentleman from Washington. First, I also want to thank my friend, Congressman Pat Meehan, for cosponsoring my amendment. Due to sequestration, the Department of Defense has not been allowing military bands to perform at…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 37, line 7, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $97,500,000) (increased by $97,500,000)''. The Acting CHAIR…

Moments ago, the TSA Administrator announced that he will reverse his earlier decision to allow knives back onto airplanes. Knives will now continue to be a part of the prohibited items list on our aircraft, making our passengers and our…

If we learned anything about the Boston Marathon bombings, it is that real threats exist against our homeland from outside actors motivated by outside forces with great access now from readily accessible materials that they can get on the…

As the gentleman from New York pointed out, over the last 11 years we have had zero attacks on our airlines where a knife was involved. Zero attacks. That number cannot get better. However, as we saw on September 11, that number…

The sacrifices of the few, our military veterans, provide the freedom for the many. We know that it is our military veterans, who only make up just 1 percent of our population, that provide 100 percent of our freedom. But far too many of…

This hearing is very timely because at the crash scene, we saw first-hand the role that social media can play.

Is there a goal to have all of the data that FEMA puts out in a open-source format that can be accessed by all?

I would first like to begin by extending my sympathies to those who died or were injured during the plane crash at San Francisco International Airport on this past Saturday and to their families.

In your testimony, you discussed FEMA's efforts to stop the spread of misinformation through its rumor-control website, and to me this sounds a lot like a website I use called Snopes.

I believe education should always be a national obsession but a local possession, and relying on local stakeholders, I think, can really guide us.

At the last hearing we heard from private-sector witnesses that although social media has allowed us to make great strides in how we respond to disasters or emergencies, the lack of uniform open-source data standards hindered the abilities…

So I think the short-term solution for that of course is comprehensive immigration reform. That includes increasing the H-1B visas.

I think the evidence is clear from all of the witnesses that right now in the United States we are facing a shortage of high-skilled workers in technology, advanced manufacturing that our employers are just not able to fill.

I rise in opposition, Mr. Speaker, to the Making College More Expensive Act. How short are some of the memories of my friends on the other aside, for it was market-based principles, unregulated market-based principles, that led to the…

A focus of today's hearing is the development of an exascale computing capability.

It doesn't serve anyone any good if we are just doing the research in the government and not transferring that research out to the private sector.

I appreciate your comments about providing more certainty to our national laboratories.

I am excited to learn more about the work that the DOE is doing in partnership with industry and our national laboratories.