All posts tagged "Town Hall Meetings"

Lawmakers are back on Capitol Hill after a break that saw many of them back home at contentious town hall meetings with unhappy constituents. Now that they've heard what voters have to say, both the House and Senate must grapple with passing President Donald Trump's agenda in the form of a massive spending bill.

CNN's Manu Raju called this next week a "critical period of legislating."

"The House Republicans and Senate Republicans have been laying the groundwork for months for this moment, to actually draft the details of this massive bill that includes a sweeping overhaul of the tax code, more than $1 trillion in spending cuts to federal programs, new provisions for immigration, and billions of dollars for Defense spending and Homeland Security spending, as well," Raju said. ...

In what appears to be an effort to avoid the free-for-all town halls that have plagued recent contentious congressional recesses, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other Republican members of Congress have chosen to charge admission to their home-district appearances.

Tea party favorite Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Il) thinks that a government shutdown could be just what this country needs.

John McCain has just proposed a revolutionary series of joint town hall meetings between himself and Obama which would open up a new era in political campaigning - where the candidate with the organization, mojo and money finds himself voluntarily hamstrung by his opponent's poorly run campaign on a repeated basis to no particular benefit.*