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WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today released the following statement praising Mineta San Jose Airport's (SJC) steps to improve its perimeter security following the April breach by a teenager who was later able to stowaway in an airplane undetected. Swalwell is the only Northern California Member of the Homeland Security Committee.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) questioned Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson today in a hearing regarding the growing influx of unaccompanied children crossing the southwestern border expecting to find refuge in the United States from the economic instability and gang violence in their home countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. Swalwell criticized our broken immigration system as contributing to confusion about our immigration policies.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced that his office has helped CA-15 veterans receive a total of more than $1 million in retroactive benefits such as disability payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Benefits Administration since January 2013. This represents benefits the veterans earned but were overdue in receiving from the VA.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) released the following statement after Yahye Abdi, the teenager who breached the Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) perimeter and stowed away in the wheel well of a Hawaiian Airlines plane, spoke for the first-time publicly about the ease of trespassing the airport perimeter fence.

WASHINGTON, DC – H.R. 1671, a bill introduced by U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell to name the U.S. Post Office in Dublin, CA as the "James ‘Jim' Kohnen Post Office" passed the House of Representatives today by a vote of 398-0. Swalwell introduced the legislation to honor the life of Tri-Valley public servant and 30-year Army veteran Dr. Jim Kohnen. Dr. Kohnen passed away on May 29, 2012.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) introduced the bipartisan Widening Internet Readiness for Employment Development (WIRED) Act to assist the unemployed in finding jobs. The legislation would mandate that the Department of Labor (DOL) update One-Stop Career Center websites to dramatically improve information and job-seeking services online. The legislation was co-introduced by Republican Representative Richard Hudson (NC-08).

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today successfully passed an amendment in the Committee on Homeland Security to strengthen air travel security by providing incentives for countries to report data on lost and stolen travel documents. Swalwell's amendment to H.R. 3846, a bill regarding U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), would require the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to certify that countries participating in CBP's trusted traveler program routinely provide information on lost and stolen travel documents to the U.S.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15), lead Democrat on the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy, today requested a bill reading during consideration of the Department of Energy Research and Development Act of 2014, a Republican bill that drastically cuts DOE research programs, deemphasizes climate change research, and was only provided to Committee Democrats on Friday, June 6, at 5:30 PM. Rather than read the bill, the Republican majority abruptly ended the meeting without allowing debate or a vote on the bill.