Public Safety & Homeland Security
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) is an original co-sponsor of a new bipartisan, bicameral bill to create the “National Commission on Security and Technology Challenges” – a digital security panel uniting stakeholders to keep our nation safe while keeping our personal data secure.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved the "Tracking Foreign Fighters in Terrorist Safe Havens Act" (H.R. 4239) which was introduced last week by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence members Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Frank LoBiondo (NJ-02) to ensure greater oversight by Congress over the intelligence agencies. The vote to pass the bill was unanimous.
WASHINGTON, DC – A provision championed by U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) was included in H.R. 4127, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 that passed the House of Representatives today with strong bipartisan support. This provision ensures that Department of Energy (DOE) National Labs are clearly available to work with recipients of federal homeland security grants such as state and local governments. Swalwell is a member of the House Intelligence Committee and represents Lawrence Livermore and Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, CA.
The arrest of a woman found wandering the grounds of Mineta San Jose Airport International Airport — the fifth breach there in the past year — is proof that its perimeter fence must be outfitted with live sensors, a Bay Area congressman said Wednesday.
The fact that people are repeatedly scaling the fence erodes the public's confidence in the airport's security, said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, who questioned whether publicity of each incident has spurred people to act.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15), a Member of the Intelligence Committee and past Member of the Homeland Security Committee, released the following statement after all House Democrats and a minority of Republicans voted for a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of the fiscal year:
Washington, DC - U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today was selected to serve as the senior Democrat on the Committee on Intelligence's Subcommittee on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). This newly established subcommittee is responsible for the oversight, policy, activities, and budget of the CIA.
As terrorist attacks escalate across the globe, including the most recent tragedy in Paris, Americans are rightly asking what the nation's leaders are doing to keep them safe.
At the same time, however, House Republicans are moving closer to shutting down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over an unrelated immigration fight with President Barack Obama.
While the GOP plays politics, our enemies are plotting and toiling to threaten America and murder our people.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced he was appointed to serve on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. This committee oversees the activities of the U.S. intelligence community.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), a member of the Committee on Homeland Security, today issued the following statement after the release of the Senate report reviewing the CIA's detention and interrogation program:
"Torture is not an American value. As Senator Feinstein so courageously said today after releasing the Senate report on the CIA and torture, ‘America is big enough to admit when it was wrong, and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.' This is a mistake we must learn from.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today released the following statement after voting no on the FY 15 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):