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Democratic presidential candidate US Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) speaks during the California Democrats 2019 State Convention at the Moscone Center on June 01, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell announced his presidential bid in April and has made gun control a focus of his campaign.

A member of both the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, Swalwell of California has had a front seat to the investigations of President Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

This is where Swalwell stands on key issues:

Read Swalwell's own words on why he's entered the race here.

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said he backs a “public option” that would allow Americans to buy into a government-run health care program like Medicare, rather than a single-payer Medicare for all program like other 2020 Democratic presidential contenders are advocating.

But, in a CNN town hall Sunday night, Ryan said his focus on the topic of health care is on changing the incentives for when people receive care.

“We need to have another conversation. The current system is a disease-care system. It’s a sick care system,” he said.

The shifts that Ryan said are necessary would include answering questions such as “how do we move to a more regional, sustainable agricultural system. We are destroying our soil, destroying our environment.”

“We need to talk about incentivizing doctors and patients to be healthy -- pay doctors to help get us healthy; reward patients with rebates and refunds to stay healthy. These are critical components of how we stay healthy,” Ryan said.

“My health care plan is make sure we get everybody covered -- mental health, addiction, all of these critical issues that are facing people today -- but let’s flip this system and get people healthy,” he said. “You want to knock the knees to of the pharmaceutical industry? Let’s all say, how do we get a little more healthy in the United States so we don’t need the damn pharmaceutical industry? … Get out of the disease care system; move it to health, food, and take care of our soil.”

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Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said he has sat in silence for a week.

The Democratic congressman, who is a self-confessed yogi, said he went on mindfulness meditation retreats for five to seven days before he was married with children.

"It's an amazing experience. It reduces your stress level dramatically. It's no phones, no journalling, no TV. And so it's been great because there's so much research on it now. How much it can help kids. How much it can help people who have addictions. Just generally for all of us where stress is a huge killer. It's a very simple practice that has no side effects," he said. 

Meditation, he said, has changed him.

"Well, the stress level is different. I think you start to see through a lot of the BS and you kind of cut through the noise, which has been very helpful in politics in the last few years. It helps you see how things are interconnected. It helps you really see a little bit deeper into people, kind of looking into their hearts and really see what's motivating them. A lot of the trauma. You look at what's happened and today with so many of our kids that have so much trauma, adverse childhood experiences that they have, this is a real focus," he said.

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Asked if he’d be comfortable with an all-white, all-male Democratic 2020 ticket, Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan said “no, absolutely not.”

“Our ticket and the next president’s cabinet must reflect the diversity of the country. And I’m committed to do that,” said Ryan, a 2020 Democratic contender who is himself a white man.

Ryan pointed to Youngstown, Ohio, being 50% African-American, and said his focus on economic policies would direct investment toward struggling areas.

“White, black, brown, gay, straight, I will be a working-class president for the American people,” he said.

Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan predicted that the top issue confronting the next president is the United States’ relationship with China.

He also criticized President Donald Trump for imposing tariffs that are “not targeted” on imports from China, saying that “we have no clue what the plan is, what the strategy is, and our farmers are getting hammered.”

“Trump does not have a big strategy. He has a tactic that gets him on TV because he sends a tweet out -- tariffs are on, tariffs are off -- and the media runs with it all the time and it changes the subject and he can look tough,” he said. “We’re getting our clock cleaned.”

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Tim Ryan on Sunday called for a start to impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

Ryan, who has previously been more cautious to call for impeachment proceedings, cited former special counsel Robert Mueller’s remarks last week in pushing him to support congressional action, saying he wanted to know from Mueller whether it was only Trump’s status as president that protected him from criminal charges.

“I wanted to know that answer,” Ryan said, “and the answer I got a couple days ago was yes, he would have.”

Mueller said on Wednesday, on the subject of obstruction of justice, that “if we had had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.”

“We (in Congress) oversee Article II of the Constitution, which is the president -- not the king,” Ryan said on Sunday night. “And when you think that the President has committed comes -- and I’ve read the Mueller report and think he obstructed (justice) on multiple occasions -- we have a responsibility.”

Ryan also explained why he had been so cautious even as the evidence turned up by Mueller had become public.

“I know what (impeachment) is going to do to the country,” he said. “I take no joy in this, at all. But I have a duty and responsibility and that duty and responsibility is led me to think we have to do this.” 

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Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan on Sunday defended previous comments he made casting worrying about climate change as a “luxury,” calling the issue a “top priority” and saying that combating climate change should be viewed as a “jobs program.”

“I’m talking about the auto worker that just lost their job and can’t pay their mortgage, and they have to leave their kids to go work in another factory, and they’re not sure what their future looks like,” he said during a CNN town hall of his previous comments on the “Pod Save America” podcast. “And my argument is, we’ve got to understand that they don’t have the bandwidth to talk about climate because they’re worried about putting food on the table for their kids and they’re worried about where their next paycheck’s going to come from.”

Ryan said that he’d attempt to reach those people by viewing climate change as a “jobs program.”

“I talk about reversing climate change as a jobs program. We should dominate the electric vehicle market. We should dominate the battery market. We should dominate the charging station market,” he said, adding that China is currently dominating the electric vehicle and solar markets.

“Let’s talk about it in the context of jobs. Solar’s growing at 30% a year; wind’s growing at 20% a year. We’re going to make 30 million electric vehicles in the next 10 years. I want those made in the United States, and let’s steer the investment to the communities that have lost: communities of color, old coal, old auto, old steel, old rubber,” he said.

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