CS Kuchana paraspanol hi, this is State Senator ████████████████ asking you to join our live telephone town hall meeting. Just stay on the line to be automatically connected. You'll have an opportunity to ask questions vote in surveys on your phone or just listen in we will be discussing important issues facing our community based on questions from the live teletown hall audience. Again please stay on the line to be connected to our forum now in progress. My office can be reached at ███████████ thank 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 zero read her question she wants to know how do I better understand what's going on when the legislature is in ███████████. Great thanks for that question █████ I think there's a lot of different ways folks can stay in touch to what's going on in the comings and goings of ███████████ as you can understand we're in the thick of it right now with the legislative session one of the easiest ways to be stay engaged as I said earlier you can subscribe to my newsletter at ██████████████████████████████ again no █ in █████████ we send these newsletters out on a regular basis with legislative updates and information about what's happening in ███████████ but also many of my newsletters contain very pertinent district information of different events going on and go about the district from different organizations nonprofits it is also in English and Spanish so please be sure to sign up if you haven't already. We also have Spanish and English constituent information at my office in █████. You can give us a call or send us a note on my website to get more information about the constituent services we handle and what types of issues we can help with. You can also visit the Illinois General Assembly website and that's ████████████ or we say Ilga for the most recent information on committees watch livestream session and committee hearings and find the bills that I am sponsoring and those that are up for discussion. Finally I encourage you to find me on social media at Apersan Senator ██████ and follow my pages so that you can see whatever we post updates on what's going on as well as we also share pertinent in district information from different stakeholder groups, municipalities, local governments you name it and also some of the community events we host resources and anything that might be of interest to you. So please follow our social media channels. Thank you so much Senator great question there to kick off our Q&A from █████ and if you wanted to get in line with a question just like █████ did here tonight be sure to press zero. Up next here another question coming in from █████ in █████ who's wanting to know what has been done to deal with federal overreach into our communities. Thank you for the question █████ our state has strengthened our laws to protect Illinois residents and their civil rights despite the actions taken by federal the federal administration. Since the start