Media
Latest News
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement Tuesday:
"The Russian government – and its plans to attack our democracy again – scored a major victory today in the House of Representatives.
CASTRO VALLEY, CA – One week after the carnage in Las Vegas, Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) will host his constituents for a candlelight vigil on Sunday, October 8 to honor victims of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
"This is a time for our community to come together in sympathy and solidarity with those who were killed, wounded and traumatized in this horrific massacre," Swalwell said.
WHAT: Candlelight victim for victims of Las Vegas mass shooting
WHO: Rep. Eric Swalwell and many 15th Congressional District constituents
Thoughts and prayers just aren't enough. We can't go on like this.
Another mass shooting has shaken America. Our fellow citizens were mowed down while enjoying country music on a cool autumn evening in Las Vegas. Our nation's hands pray and our hearts ache for the scores who are dead and the hundreds of others wounded.
Social media bring us terrifying scenes of concert-goers scrambling to dodge the bullets raining down on them. We've never seen this much carnage from a single shooter with high-powered weapons in America.
During the 2000s, Eric Swalwell was one of the first prosecutors in Alameda County to discover that some criminals were dumb enough to post incriminating photos and videos of themselves on social media. His boss and mentor, Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O'Malley, recalled that in one case, Swalwell scoured the web, uncovering a video that a defendant had posted of himself holding a .25-caliber handgun. That damning piece of evidence clinched a conviction.
WASHINGTON, DC – Reps. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Eliot Engel (NY-16) on Friday led 71 other House members in a bipartisan call for assistance in rescuing Americans stranded in the Caribbean by Hurricane Irma.
Congress already has made hundreds of inquiries to the State Department regarding constituents left marooned by Irma, which was a Category 5 storm when it ripped through many Caribbean islands.
Democratic leaders made the right call on making a deal with President Donald Trump on the debt ceiling and providing recovery funding for Harvey victims, said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., Friday.
"It was the right thing to do. We have to pay our bills, keep the government open and provide relief to those that were in Harvey's way," Swalwell said Friday on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Working with Trump provides "leverage" so Democrats can get other goals accomplished, the congressman said
WASHINGTON, DC – The House late Wednesday night adopted a bipartisan amendment offered by Reps. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-08) to put $10 million toward studying improvements to airport perimeter security in Fiscal Year 2018.
The Swalwell-Fitzpatrick amendment to the Homeland Security section of H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, would provide these funds to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to pay for research, analysis, and testing of airport perimeter intrusion technology.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (Calif.), a top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, says the panel may need to call on President Trump himself to testify on newly surfaced emails detailing a Trump Tower real estate plan for Moscow that was scrapped during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
President Donald Trump has signed legislation co-sponsored by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, that's aimed at helping law enforcement agencies perform real-time DNA testing to speed up justice.
CASTRO VALLEY, CA – The bipartisan, bicameral Rapid DNA Act – of which Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15) was the lead Democratic House cosponsor, to help local law enforcement use new technology to speed up justice – has been signed into law by President Donald Trump.