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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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Feb 5, 2024

We cannot allow for CISA's cybersecurity work to become politicized and the trusted partnerships it has spent multiple administrations cultivating to erode.

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Jan 30, 2024

One party again, they just want to sabotage the process, throw at the secretary in charge of the process not solve the process so that you can help Donald Trump in the upcoming election and benefit on the chaos.

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Jan 30, 2024

It's clear that when it comes to border security, Democrats are for the fix and Republicans are for the fiction.

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Jan 29, 2024

The response is no. Trump doesn't want it, so we don't want it.

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Jan 29, 2024

It is actually an insult to Americans everywhere.

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Jan 29, 2024

With all due respect to Chair Roy, I believe that his call for Texas to ignore the Supreme Court is an endorsement of lawlessness and chaos.

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Jan 29, 2024

What my extreme MAGA Republican colleagues and their apologists are doing is perpetrating a deeply cynical psychological manipulation.

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Jan 29, 2024

Such remarks from the Chair of the Constitution Subcommittee no less, are highly irresponsible, dangerous to our democracy, and sadly, typical of the extreme MAGA Republicans this Congress.

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Jan 29, 2024

The real purpose of today's hearing is to serve as one more distraction from the MAGA Republican Majority's total failure on border policy.

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Jan 17, 2024

If they were not willing to hold Donald Trump accountable for his impeachable crimes, I don't really want their hot take.

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Jan 17, 2024

They don't want the fix. They want the fiction.

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Jan 17, 2024

My Democratic colleagues want the fix. MAGA Republicans want the fiction.

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Jan 17, 2024

Speaker Johnson said no. Again, just revealing and saying out loud what we all know, which is that they don't want to solve this problem.

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Jan 16, 2024

If this is what he said, that he's treated no better and no worse than anyone else. And that anyone else who makes threats against Republicans or Democrats, that we start to have a rule of law that says we're a country where we settle our…

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Jan 16, 2024

The aim of these threats is to silence me and to silence anyone like me in Congress from speaking out against Donald Trump.

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Jan 16, 2024

I take them seriously for my family. I take them seriously for my staff.

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Jan 16, 2024

Let's join together and let's allow our unity to be the antidote to these types of threats, and that we condemn them whether they are against Republicans or Democrats.

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Jan 16, 2024

When it comes to Donald Trump and his henchmen like Roger Stone, they prefer violence over voting. They are bankrupt of any ideas that would help anyone who watches your show. And so they want to, as he said, get right to the violence.

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Jan 10, 2024

Immigrants don't hurt the economy.

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Jan 10, 2024

It is absurd to say that immigrants are a drain on the economy.

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Jan 10, 2024

The idea that the Administration is not enforcing the law is ridiculous.

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Jan 10, 2024

The Biden Administration is enforcing immigration laws.

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Dec 11, 2023

One of the problems we have as defenders is we don't talk to each other enough, right? The bad guys are actually working together.

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Dec 11, 2023

I want to go on record for saying that we, as Members of Congress, have been engaged in a task force.

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Dec 11, 2023

Let me thank Ranking Member Swalwell for a very important hearing.

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