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FREMONT, CA – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced the Restarting Local Economies Act of 2013, which would make it easier for communities in California to obtain federal redevelopment funding. In 2011, the state legislature voted and California closed all of the state's roughly 400 redevelopment agencies (RDAs), leaving localities without a source to fund much-needed development. In the Fifteenth Congressional District, the loss was over $50 million.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Eric Swalwell (CA-15) and Jackie Speier (CA-14) today sent a letter to Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Raj Shah requesting that the U.S. Air Force administer airdrops of humanitarian supplies and food to the most remote and inaccessible areas of the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. They were joined on the bipartisan letter by 36 Members of Congress.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) sent a bipartisan letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator W. Craig Fugate, urging FEMA to adopt open data standards to enhance social media alerts in disaster situations. In a July Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing led by Rep. Swalwell and Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications Chairman Rep. Susan Brooks on the role of social media in an emergency situation, witnesses noted certain obstacles undermining the dissemination of vital, life-saving information.

November 15, 2013 WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today voted against the Republicans 46th attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and roll back patient protections, and in support of a plan that will keep the President's promise that if you like your health care you can keep it:

PLEASANTON, CA –

PLEASANTON, CA – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) led a letter of Bay Area Members of Congress to Edward DeMarco, the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), opposing two proposals that could destabilize the greater San Francisco Bay Area's recovering housing market. The FHFA is considering lowering the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac loan limits across the country, which would reduce available credit and restrict Bay Area homebuyers who are bound by an expensive housing market.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Senior Democrat on the Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy, today criticized the partisan Republican draft bill reauthorizing the America COMPETES Act.

Although the legislation had previously always had bipartisan support, the Republicans have decided to take a piecemeal approach by releasing the EINSTEIN Act, which inadequately funds the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science and risks our leadership in technology and innovation.

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today passed an amendment in the Committee on Homeland Security to direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take a broader approach in its cybersecurity workforce recruitment. Currently, DHS focuses its cyber recruitment and training strategy on students, recent graduates, and existing DHS employees, but Swalwell's amendment urges DHS to expand its recruitment pool to include other populations including veterans and mid-career professionals.