Asked twice how many of his constituents will lose food assistance under the rules he voted for, Evans changed the subject to Colorado's paperwork error rate — which is actually lower than the national average.
More than 150 people gathered outside Collins' Biddeford office over her vote for $70 billion in new ICE funding. One of them was Alessia Gaspar Da Silva, whose husband has been in ICE custody for seven months.
Bice chairs the House subcommittee on modernizing constituent engagement — she ran a hearing on it, won funding for a Constituent Engagement Innovation Project, and is soliciting ideas right now. Asked why she does not hold in-person town halls, she answered with arithmetic: 'I am never going to get that kind of engagement if I'm doing in-person town halls.'
Stauber co-authored the Faster Labor Contracts Act and promoted it at a Duluth union hall. On June 9 he voted no on both procedural votes that decided whether it would reach the floor — then voted yes on final passage and put out a press release taking credit.
Border crossings at the Soo bridge fell 24%. A gear shop is down 27%. ProPublica asked the congressman who represents the Upper Peninsula what he plans to do about it, and got no response — because there is no mention of tariffs anywhere on his website during Trump's second term.
Four days after 700 constituent letters were delivered to his office, Fitzpatrick went on Face the Nation and called in-person town halls a 'three-ring circus' funded by dark money groups he would not name. His constituents held one anyway, with an empty chair for him.
Leaked audio from a private fundraiser caught her telling donors her own poll had her up one point and that voters don't know her. Since 2023 her town halls have been by phone only — questions screened in advance, with reporters and constituents left in a queue.
Nine months into the job, Brad Knott had held three town halls — all of them by telephone. On the third, a constituent from the small town of Angier asked how he could support the Medicaid cuts. He said lawmakers 'stand ready' to make changes if needed.
Twenty-one people signed a sheet at Trent Kelly's Columbus office in 2017 asking for a town hall-style meeting. Eight years later, a weekly protest was standing on the sidewalk outside, and one of the people in it was asking for the same thing.