Hi, this is your member of Congress, ███████████. And right now we're having a telephone town hall, and I'm inviting you. And if you'd like to join us, just stay on the line. You'll be automatically connected. You'll have an opportunity to ask questions, share comments, or just listen in. Again. Please stay on the line to be connected to our conversation now in progress. If you'd like to reach my office, you can always call us at ████████████. Thank you. And I welcome you to our town hall. You are joining a live conference already in progress. Please be aware that your local phone company may leave your line open for up to ██ seconds after you leave the conference. If you would like to ask the speaker a question, please press 0 while you wait here. We do appreciate you thinking about what questions you might want to submit for Q and █ and again, zero to get those into the queue. And also giving us that email address to keep you updated moving forward. We are dialing out to the 16th congressional district. And so a lot of your neighbors are joining us right now. We've already got thousands on the line. We'll have thousands more in just a couple of minutes as we wrap up. And then we're going to go for a while tonight. We're going to take a lot of questions. So I do encourage everybody to keep your questions as brief as possible just so that we can get to more of your neighbors and cover more ground. Tonight with your congressmen. There is so much going on. We want to take on as much as we can. So when we do take your questions, try to just get it in there and get as much of your question as quickly as we can so that we can really cover a lot of ground with all that's going on with all of the listeners we have from across the district right now. ███, thanks. And in order for folks to be able to make a comment or ask a question, they just dial ████, Is that right? Correct? Yep. And those of you who are already in the queue with your questions submitted to us, we thank you. It's really going to be your questions that drive our conversation tonight. We don't have an agenda here. We are planning to take your questions and let that guide us through this conversation. So for those of you who are already submitting questions. Thank you again to Xero. If you've got a question in mind, you want to get it into the queue. Some of what we're seeing in our queue already is some questions on the invasion of █████████. Of course, we're hearing about the affordability of health care. The actions of ice, of course. And so we want to cover all that ground and more. So thank you to those of you who are submitting questions for Q and A. Thanks to those of you who are submitting email addresses for updates. And I'll remind you once more that if you want to visit the website submit your email address there to get updates or just find out what the Congressman is doing in ████ you can visit █████████████████ and Congresswoman Congressman, we are about to finish with our dial out here. If you'd like to just highlight a couple of things. We're ready to go. ok thank you ian appreciate it and thank you everyone for your patience i know it's taken us a couple minutes to get going that's the nature of this technology we just have to get a lot of dials out in order to ensure everybody has an opportunity to join us there are of course thousands of your neighbors who are online now so i'm going to make my comments very brief so we can hear from as many of you as