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Pete Aguilar

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Pete Aguilar is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing California's 31st congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served in Congress since January 6, 2015. Aguilar has focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and economic development during his tenure. He has also been active in advocating for voting rights and addressing climate change.

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Jan 28, 2022

I think the importance of these 14 individuals is because we want to know how deep this conversation went with individuals in and around the White House.

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Jan 28, 2022

I think it is all together possible, but I also think it`s altogether possible that they were hearing multiple different conspiracy theories.

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Jan 21, 2022

If someone was truly concerned about protecting democracy they would come before our committee willingly and voluntarily.

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Jan 21, 2022

The silence is deafening, right, from some of my Republican colleagues to me, while they continue to talk about the efforts to expand the Voting Rights Act.

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Jan 21, 2022

We will continue to share with the public exactly what we have learned, what the prior administration was doing to thwart and undercut a free and fair election.

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Jan 21, 2022

These type of things are absolutely dangerous and scary, to think that the former administration had actually gone to these steps, and these lengths.

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Jan 13, 2022

It’s unfortunate if people who take the same oath that I took to uphold and defend the Constitution don’t want to talk about efforts to thwart that Constitution and to prevent a free and fair election, to prevent a peaceful transfer of…

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Jan 13, 2022

It`s unfortunate if people who take the same oath that I took to uphold and defend the Constitution don`t want to talk about efforts to thwart that Constitution and to prevent a free and fair election, to prevent a peaceful transfer of…

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Jan 12, 2022

The fact that they were coordinating in those efforts is deeply troubling.

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Jan 12, 2022

The minority leader had conversations with the former president as well as members of the former president`s team leading up to January 6.

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Jan 12, 2022

If we`re all committed to democracy, if we`re all committed to the constitutional oath that we took, then members should be coming forward.

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Jan 11, 2022

I urge the Committee to add water conservation as an authorized purpose for the dam.

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Jan 6, 2022

It`s wild. That`s how it strikes me. And I think you hit it right. They talk about ballots and integrity, but those are the same ballots that elected them.

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Jan 3, 2022

We`re making significant progress in our investigation. And we continue to gather information via text messages and via interviews from individuals. And one of those key areas that we`ve discussed all along there are these 197 minutes that…

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Dec 29, 2021

I think anyone committed to upholding our constitution should come forward and share those details voluntarily. Yes.

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Dec 29, 2021

What we want are documents that are related to our investigation, documents related to the president's -- former presidents activities, leading up to January 5th and January 6th, rallies.

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Dec 22, 2021

We`re going to continue to do that work, you know, out of the public realm. And we`re going to -- we`re going to have success doing that. But we`re not going to be deterred for investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

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Dec 22, 2021

Well, as the letter from Chairman Thompson indicated, we want --- we feel that the information that he has in his possession can shed some light on exactly what happened and what transpired on January 5th and January 6.

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Dec 16, 2021

That's why Chairman Thompson has said, we're not just investigating January -- the rallies of January 5th and January 6th, everything that led up to that, including from the election day to that time, but were there any points before the…

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Dec 16, 2021

We know who the author was, I'm not in a position to give that at this point.

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Dec 16, 2021

There are plenty of details that haven't been reported in the media that we continue to gather. That's part of our investigative work.

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Dec 16, 2021

We're starting at a very high point, and then we're continuing to gather information.

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Dec 16, 2021

I think we are making progress, the 300 individuals who we`ve talked to. They continue to give us more information. We`re pulling the thread of the investigation and we`re following every lead. We`re not presupposing where this is going…

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Dec 14, 2021

On January 3rd, Mr. Meadows was exchanging text messages with a lawmaker about the pressure campaign to get state legislatures to overturn the results of the election.

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Dec 14, 2021

He thinks the legislatures have the power, but the V.P. has power too.

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