Hi, this is Congressman █████████████ calling to invite you to participate in a live town hall meeting where we're going to discuss important issues being addressed in Congress, including putting thousands of dollars back into the pockets of hard working Louisiana families with the working families tax cut, ushering in a new age of American energy exploration and making our community safer. If you'd like to participate, please stay on the line and you'll be connected to this live town hall meeting. But if my office can be of any assistance to you, feel free to call the office at ████████████ or visit my website at █████████████████ thank you. Please hold while we connect you to your Access Live event. This Access Live event is currently in progress. Please note that this call may be monitored, recorded or rebroadcast. And throughout this phone call, we're going to be doing a few things, not only taking your questions, I'm going to be getting your feedback. And so throughout the call, it usually lasts about ██ minutes. And I'll do three different poll questions during the call. And so about every ██ minutes I'll read a different poll question. You get to interact online on your telephone. And then at the end of that ██ minutes, I'll read all of you the results of the poll question and then we'll go to the next poll question. And so if you stay on for the whole call, you'll get to participate in all three of these poll questions. So I can get real feedback from you on really important issues that we're dealing with here in Congress. And of course, as we go through this, if there are any things that we can help you with with all of our offices, we've got offices throughout the first congressional district. I've got my offices here in ████████████████ don't hesitate to reach out to any of our offices and you can contact us, you can go to the █████████████████████████ and on our website we have all of the contact information. If you want to email us through the website, if you want to look up any of our district offices, you can call the offices and our main number is ████████████. And if there's any issue or you just want to give your opinion about something going on in Congress, don't hesitate to reach us that way. Again, this is Congressman █████████████. As we start this, the first question I'm going to ask you about involves the working Families tax cut, which was known as the one big, beautiful bill. It's a bill that we worked on at the beginning of last year with President █████ to address, number one, making sure that there was not a tax increase. Because if Congress took no action last year, every American who pays taxes was going to face a large tax increase, usually in about the ██% range. I did not want that to happen. We were able to, number one, hold all the tax rates where they were. And then we made a few extra cuts. We gave a tax cut to people. For example, no tax on tips. If you work for tips. By the way, the average tip worker makes about $██