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US President Barack Obama has signed into law a legislative measure allowing American taxpayers to claim deductions for donations they made to support relief and rehabilitation efforts in the aftermath of super typhoon Yolanda in the Central Philippines.
The new law, called the Charitable Giving Assistance Act, would allow taxpayers who made donations to relief efforts in the Philippines from the period March 25 – the day the law was signed by Obama — to April 15 to claim charitable deductions when they file their 2013 tax returns.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced that his bill, H.R. 3771, the Philippines Charitable Giving Assistance Act, passed the House of Representatives. This bill will help incentivize contributions to Typhoon Haiyan relief in the Philippines. The bipartisan bill is co-led by Reps. Mike Thompson (D-CA), Joe Heck (R-NV), and Darrell Issa (R-CA).
HAYWARD, CA -- U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Member of the Homeland Security Committee, today announced he is an original cosponsor of H.R. 4263, the Social Media Working Group Act of 2014. He introduced it with Reps. Susan W. Brooks (R-IN-5), Donald Payne (D-NJ-10), and Steven Palazzo (R-MS-4). The bipartisan bill expands both the membership and influence of the Department of Homeland Security's existing Virtual Social Media Working Group.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) offered a five-year anniversary tribute on the House Floor for fallen Oakland Police Department officers Sergeant Mark Dunakin, Sergeant Ervin Romans, Sergeant Daniel Sakai, and Officer John Hege. The officers were killed in the line of duty on Saturday, March 21, 2009.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) led a letter with Reps. Richard Hudson (R-NC), Candice Miller (R-MI), and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Members of the Homeland Security Committee with jurisdiction over the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), to Secretary of State John Kerry and Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson based on security concerns raised by the ongoing investigation involving missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey urging that the FBI take steps to improve DNA testing for law enforcement. The letter asks the bureau to consider Rapid DNA analysis, and to better use private labs to reduce the severe DNA backlog. The letter was co-led by Reps. Mike Honda (CA-17) and Barbara Lee (CA-13).
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today called on the National Football League (NFL) to commit to moving the 2015 Super Bowl out of Arizona should SB 1062 become law. The discriminatory SB 1062 would enable businesses in Arizona to refuse to serve people simply because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).
LIVERMORE, CA – U.S. Representatives Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) led a letter to President Barack Obama urging strong and sustained funding for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as he prepares his FY 2015 budget. The NIF is the world's most powerful laser and the preeminent research tool in the world for inertial confinement fusion research. NIF is conducting research key for stockpile stewardship and developing clean, safe, and plentiful fusion energy.
WASHINGTON, DC -- Yesterday, a television news agency reported Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) received pay during the federal government shutdown, despite pledging to not be paid. This is not what occurred.
On September, 30, 2013, Swalwell sent a letter to the House of Representative's Chief Administrative Officer asking to have any salary earned during the government shutdown withheld until federal workers who also had to work without pay, received their pay. The government shutdown began on October 1, 2013.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced the Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) was awarded a two-year $4.1 million federal SAFER grant to hire and train 12 new firefighters. The Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant program is administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Swalwell, a member of the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to FEMA in September in support of the grant for the Alameda County Fire Department.