This is Congressman ████████████. I'm calling to invite you to join my live telephone town hall taking place in just a few moments. If you'd like to participate, please stay on the line and you'll be automatically connected. I hope you do stay on the line because your opinion matters to me. If you have any questions after the event or I can assist you in any way, please call my office at ███████████. If you'd like to be added to our Do Not Call list, please press 9 now. I hope you stay on the line and join us. I very much look forward to hearing from you. Please hold while we connect you to your Access Live event. The Access Live event is currently in music hold and we'll start momentarily. Please note this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. Good evening, everyone. This is Congressman ████████████. And like to welcome you to our telephone town hall meeting. It's an honor to represent South Louisiana and all of you here on the call. I'm looking forward to answering many of your questions tonight. Before we get started, Please take down the number in case you're disconnected from the call. It's ████. ██████ to dial back in. If you'd like to ask a question this evening, it's very simple. You press star three on your keypad. And a staff member will assist you. We'll get to your question. We'll try to answer as many questions as possible, so please press star three. To begin getting in line to answer questions, to ask questions now. As you get in your questions in. Let me just give you a quick update from the office right now. Although we are ██ days into a Democrat force government shutdown. My work for the people of █████████ and, by extension, of the citizens of our country. Across the █████████████ remains unaffected. We're working. My DC Offices is working on many legislative and committee projects. My district offices in █████████ and ████████████ have been deeply engaged in casework, as have I. Boots on the ground. In all ██ parishes across ███████████████ that I'm honored to represent. Helping the citizens of █████████'s 3rd district navigate through bureaucratic obstacles. Our team just remains at work and available to you. So they can't stop us. You know, the Democrats are quite beside themselves attempting to stop our progress.