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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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Mar 2, 2022

Our job is to tell the truth, to find the facts, and to make sure we look at everything that led up to January 6.

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Feb 15, 2022

But clearly, folks within the former presidents orbit and folks who worked on this scheme were not based in any type of reality. And anyone who is seeking public office should be grounded in reality.

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Feb 15, 2022

We feel that we’re making significant progress. But ultimately, what’s your reporting shows is just the depths to which this is gone. And the silencing of millions of votes that this campaign official was asking the states, by silencing…

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Feb 15, 2022

We want both the production of documents, as well as their testimony. That’s what we’ve sought out of each individual who’s received a subpoena. That’s our expectation.

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Feb 15, 2022

the select committee is in possession of communications reflecting her involvement in a coordinated strategy to conduct Republican members of state legislators, in certain states that former President Trump had lost, and urge them to…

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Feb 3, 2022

What we will continue to gather is additional information. We will work on the timeline, we will work on the players, we will work on the levels to which the White House was actively involved. We clearly know the top lines here, and that's…

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Feb 2, 2022

from my perspective, it’s incredibly important because it reinforces the fact that they didn’t want to abide by a free and fair election or support a peaceful transfer of power.

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Feb 2, 2022

I think it shows just exactly how dangerous it is, and that we were truly at the doorstep of a democratic and constitutional crisis. But the fact that he`s dangling pardons for these individuals who hurt 140 Capitol Police officers is just…

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Feb 1, 2022

Absolutely, when is enough, enough, when a mob is chanting hang Mike Pence, it wasn’t enough. When the former president asked Brad Raffensperger to find him 11,000 votes, it wasn’t enough. Now he’s, you know, dangling, pardons if he gets…

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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

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, legislation that would protect the right to vote and strengthen our democracy. This week we heard President Biden, traveling to…

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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

I include in the Record the following letters of support for the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5746. American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, January 13, 2022. Dear Representative: On behalf of the American Federation of Government…

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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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