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September 18, 2013

Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) announced on Tuesday, Sept. 18 that the Hayward Police Department will receive a three-year federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant to hire two School Resource Officers (SROs). The SROs will help Hayward improve school safety and address youth gang violence. In July, Rep. Swalwell sent a letter to the director of the COPS program in support of Hayward's application for a grant. The COPS grants are administered by the U.S. Department of Justice.


September 17, 2013

HAYWARD, CA – Congressman Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced that the Hayward Police Department will receive a three-year federal Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) grant to hire two School Resource Officers (SROs). The SROs will help Hayward improve school safety and address youth gang violence. In July, Rep. Swalwell sent a letter to the director of the COPS program in support of Hayward's application for a grant. The COPS grants are administered by the U.S. Department of Justice.


September 17, 2013

The Hayward Coalition for Healthy Youth and Ashland Cherryland Violence Prevention Collaborative will be receiving a grant to help prevent the youth in Hayward, Ashland and Cherryland from using and abusing drugs.


September 16, 2013

HAYWARD, CA – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) today announced that the Hayward Coalition for Healthy Youth and Ashland Cherryland Violence Prevention Collaborative will each receive a federal Drug-Free Communities (DFC) grant worth $125,000 per year for five years. The grants will fund their respective efforts to reduce youth substance use and are administered by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.


September 13, 2013

Freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Dublin, holds the most exemplary voter-participation record among Bay Area House members.


September 3, 2013

PLEASANTON, CA – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) released the following statement on the possibility of American military intervention in Syria:

"I spent the last week in the Middle East and Afghanistan where I was briefed by generals and intelligence officials on the situation in Syria. The evidence is overwhelming that the Assad regime used chemical weapons to massacre innocent civilians, including children.

Issues: Foreign Affairs

August 31, 2013

WASHINGTON — David Valadao, a soft-spoken California dairy farmer, was barely six months in Congresswhen he made a splash.


August 29, 2013

It's been a travel-heavy recess for freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Pleasanton.

Just weeks after his trip with a congressional delegation to Israel and the West Bank, Swalwell returned Thursday from another co-del to Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates.

Issues: Foreign Affairs

August 29, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) returns today from a four-day Congressional Delegation visit to Afghanistan and the UAE. The delegation was led by the House Armed Service Committee's Senior Democrat Adam Smith.

Issues: Foreign Affairs

August 27, 2013

Sandstone Diagnostics Inc. won a nearly $150,000 National Institutes of Health grant to develop an instrument to quickly detect a potentially deadly blood infection in newborns.

The Livermore company was founded last year with technology spun out of national defense work at Sandia National Laboratory. Its instrument is designed to help neonatal intensive care units monitor protein and cellular biomarkers in newborns with sepsis, an inflammatory disease where the entire body responds to severe infection.