Hello, this is Congressman ████████████. I invite you to stay on the line to be instantly connected to a live, toll free telephone town hall meeting I'm currently holding regarding issues important to families in southern ████████. To join in on this important live town hall meeting where you can talk to me in person and ask questions. Just stay on the line. If I can be of assistance, please visit my █████████████████████████ or call my office at ██████. ████████████████████. Thank you. Please hold while we connect you to your Access Live event. The Access Live event is currently in music hold and will start momentarily. Please note this call may be monitored, recorded or re broadcast. Well, good evening. This is congressman ████████████ here. Doing another live teletown hall. And I put emphasis on live and tele town hall. It's the way we can do it and reach a lot of people in one evening, one short hour. It goes so quickly. After about the first ██ minutes, it just rushes. So we encourage people to make this the best use of their time. Staying on as long as you can to hear the questions that come from others and the answers I'll try to give or the comments that people will make. But it is better if you join us as well. If you have a question or a comment to make, hit Star three on your telephone keypad at any time. That won't take you off the call, put you through to our receptionist who can take your information, put you in the queue. And like I say regularly, the earlier you get in, the more likely you will have an opportunity to ask your question or make your comment. We encourage you to ask the questions sincere, sincerely and seriously, as well as quickly as possible. So I can work as quickly as possible, answer the question or respond to your comment and we can get on with the next person so we can get through as many of the listeners who are on the phone lines as possible in that short hour. Again, this is a live teletown hall meeting coming from ████████████████ your office that I reside in during my weeks in ██████████. ██████████████████ Office spilling with my window, looking out at the Congressional Christmas tree that's out there now, and also at the dome of ████ capitol. So this is a live Teletone hall. And glad to have you with us tonight. A lot of things have been happening since we came back from the Democrat shutdown that kept us out of work for ██ days. We spent a lot of time back in the district, and that was the one good thing about it, being able to get out. But had a lot of stuff to do. And as chairman of the Education Workforce Committee, it was frustrating with an aggressive schedule that we put together to deal with education and workforce issues. This set us back a bit, but we came back after those ██ days. and my staff had worked overtime to make sure that we could have hearings and markups of the bills as quickly as possible so that first week back we did more than any other committee in congress