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National issues took center stage at San Ramon Mayor Bill Clarkson's monthly breakfast meeting on Friday, with Congressman Eric Swalwell speaking and taking questions from the crowd.
The event drew about 50 people, the largest yet for the monthly meetings initiated by Clarkson after his election. Swalwell talked about the events that led to his run, some of the problems in Congress and plans for the future.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) released the following statement tonight following President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress:
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today honored fallen Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Officer Sergeant Thomas (Tommy) Smith, who was tragically killed last week while on duty. Sgt. Smith resided in San Ramon, in Rep. Swalwell's congressional district.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today organized Democratic Members of Congress on the House Floor to urge Speaker Boehner to immediately restore unemployment benefits for the 1.4 million Americans who recently lost this vital lifeline due to Congressional inaction. Swalwell and 20 Democrats demanded that House Republican Leadership allow an up-or-down vote on H.R. 3824, which would extend emergency unemployment insurance for three months.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) released the following statement after Congressman George Miller (CA-11) announced that he will retire from the House of Representatives at the end of this term:
"I haven't learned this much in a single year in my entire life."
That's how Rep. Eric Swalwell describes his first 12 months as a congressman.
The East Bay Democrat was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2013 after defeating 40-year incumbent Congressman Pete Stark by a surprisingly easy margin in the November 2012 election.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) challenged fellow freshman Congressman Robert Pittenger (R-NC) to a wager on Sunday's NFC game between the San Francisco 49ers and Carolina Panthers. Swalwell will provide Pittenger's office with wine from the Livermore Valley if the Panthers win; if the 49ers are victorious Swalwell's office will receive famous Carolina barbecue.
Freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell of California was 3,000 miles from Washington when he scored one of the greatest successes of his congressional career.
In his East Bay district, knocking on constituents' doors, Swalwell met a man who said he hadn't heard from his brother in the Philippines in days, since Typhoon Haiyan hit the islands. The Democratic congressman took down the man's phone number and called him back with information about the State Department's hotline for locating missing relatives.
PLEASANTON — A new federal law clears the way for a Marine Corps band to play again at the Scottish Highland Gathering and Games after a one-year absence.
In 2013, the Department of Defense barred travel for military bands playing at many community events, including the Scottish Games in Pleasanton, even if event sponsors paid the travel costs.
PLEASANTON, CA – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) announced that his work to allow military bands to once again perform at community events was successful, with the signing into law of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last month. A provision in the NDAA, based on an amendment Swalwell passed in the House, would fix a bureaucratic problem at the Department of Defense (DoD) which had been preventing events, like the Scottish Games in Pleasanton, from hosting military bands even when their sponsor agrees to pay the cost.