Post by Logan on Mar 21, 2017 12:04:16 GMT -6
Congressman's York County town hall turns contentious over health care, immigration
RED LION, Pa. — Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s town hall Saturday turned contentious in his conservative south-central Pennsylvania district over questions about his support for President Donald Trump’s budget proposal and immigration plans and for undoing former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Perry, a three-term member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative House Republicans, gamely took dozens of questions, often answering through heckling and shouts in a high school cafeteria-auditorium in York County.
At one point, he stopped to say, “If you let me answer the question, I will answer the question.” The 90-minute town hall at no point was interrupted, but Perry from time to time was shouted at or briefly drowned out by the attendees, all of whom had to show ID proving they lived in the congressional district.
Many of the questions submitted by attendees — they were picked and read by the Red Lion school district’s superintendent — took on core Republican or Trump agenda items. Some sought an answer on his support for domestic or diplomatic spending cuts proposed by Trump and elements of the House GOP bill to scrap Obama’s health care law.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/03/18/congressman-Perry-york-county-pennsylvania-town-hall-trump-health-care-immigration/stories/201703180137?pgpageversion=pgevoke
RED LION, Pa. — Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s town hall Saturday turned contentious in his conservative south-central Pennsylvania district over questions about his support for President Donald Trump’s budget proposal and immigration plans and for undoing former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Perry, a three-term member of the Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative House Republicans, gamely took dozens of questions, often answering through heckling and shouts in a high school cafeteria-auditorium in York County.
At one point, he stopped to say, “If you let me answer the question, I will answer the question.” The 90-minute town hall at no point was interrupted, but Perry from time to time was shouted at or briefly drowned out by the attendees, all of whom had to show ID proving they lived in the congressional district.
Many of the questions submitted by attendees — they were picked and read by the Red Lion school district’s superintendent — took on core Republican or Trump agenda items. Some sought an answer on his support for domestic or diplomatic spending cuts proposed by Trump and elements of the House GOP bill to scrap Obama’s health care law.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/03/18/congressman-Perry-york-county-pennsylvania-town-hall-trump-health-care-immigration/stories/201703180137?pgpageversion=pgevoke