Hey, it's ██████ with the Washington state house democratic caucus. In the Washington state senate democratic caucus, we're inviting you to a live telephone town hall happening right now where you can ask your lawmakers questions. It's free to participate. Just stay on the line to join us. Thank you. 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 ████. On your phone right now if you have a question for your legislators. And next up, Representative ████████████. Hi, everyone. First, thank you for taking a little bit of your evening time to be with us here today. It's a short session, so we're all working fast and furious to pass some good legislation and make sure that our budget is in a healthier place. As a state representative for the 38th, I sit on the Appropriations Committee, which is the committee that deals with our budget. In the House side. It's been something that I've been very honored to be part of. It's definitely a challenging time. I also sit on Early Learning Human Services Committee and on the Technology, Economic Development and Veterans Committee. And a lot of the work that I focus on is around homelessness, prevention, small business support, and what we can do to support our small businesses here in Washington State as well. And juvenile justice reform, along with immigrant rights. So definitely staying really busy during this short session. I've been very thankful to hear from a lot of you already, and I look forward to hearing from a lot of you moving forward. So thank you so much for again taking time out of your evening to be with us today. Thank you. I am back. I got disconnected again. So sorry. If you just joined us, this is a live telephone town hall with your state legislators from the 38th district. Representatives ██████████ and ████████████. And Senator █████████████. If you have a question for one or all of them, please press 0 on your phone. Right. Now. Okay, so first we are going to. I'm seeing. We're getting some questions here. Although this is not really a question, it's just a thank you. Let's see. And I don't have name. Hello. Is anybody on the line? Okay? Well, somebody without a name said that they appreciate you. Okay? Next we're going to. We sent out a survey and we got some questions, so I'm going to ask some of them. Let's see. ██████ says, thanks to each of you for sponsoring a capital appropriations forever at Gospel Missions Smith campus expansion. Please share why you did. Thanks again in advance. And president, if you have a question. Well, this is Senator ████████. I sponsored the capital request for the Everett Gospel Mission because I know that the ever Gospel Mission is our primary provider for shelter services in Everett and definitely want to make sure that we are able to maintain that capacity in our community. So it was important to me that we support that request. But I know, my seatmates also pitched in. well yes rep cortez and myself sponsored in the house and it doesn't seem like the house