{"id":39044,"date":"2022-04-21T08:40:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=39044"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:40:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:40:28","slug":"houlahan-holds-state-of-the-sixth-town-hall-in-phoenixville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=39044","title":{"rendered":"Houlahan holds &#8216;State of the Sixth&#8217; town hall in Phoenixville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15971\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15971\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15971\" src=\"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan addresses the audience at the Colonial Theater in Phoenixville.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PHOENIXVILLE \u2013 Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-6) reflected on her State of the Sixth Town Hall Tuesday night:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn \u2018normal\u2019 circumstances, gathering together in this historic theatre would be special \u2013but last night, it was very special because this gathering and this event marked more than two years since I have been able to address members of our community in this particular venue, the Colonial Theatre,\u201d said Houlahan.<\/p>\n<p>Houlahan\u2019s address was accompanied by a Year in Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q78SYcBgf-M\">video<\/a> and PowerPoint <a href=\"https:\/\/houlahan.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/state_of_the_sixth_2022.pdf\">presentation<\/a> that provided updates from Washington, D.C. on addressing inflation, supporting small businesses and restaurants, reducing supply chain bottlenecks, helping Ukrainians defend themselves against Russian aggression and more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe past several years have been more than challenging, there\u2019s no doubt about it,\u201d added Houlahan. \u201cAt home, we have had to make some hard choices and in Congress, I have had to make some hard choices. It is my belief that our best days are ahead of us, and we will not just survive, we will thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After Houlahan\u2019s remarks and presentation, Mayor Peter Urscheler moderated the question-and-answer period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhoenixville was honored to welcome Representative Houlahan back to the historic Colonial Theatre,\u201d said Urscheler. \u201cI was excited to see so many thoughtful questions\u2014the Borough of Phoenixville is always a great place for people of all backgrounds and ideologies to come together for respectful dialogue. I was grateful for the chance to moderate the lively discussion and to Chrissy for her insights and sharing her positions on a wide variety of topics with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For those unable to attend, a full recording will be made available on Houlahan\u2019s website in the coming days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIXVILLE \u2013 Representative Chrissy Houlahan (D-6) reflected on her State of the Sixth Town Hall Tuesday night: \u201cIn \u2018normal\u2019 circumstances, gathering together in this historic theatre would be special \u2013but last night, it was very special because this gathering and this event marked more than two years since I have been able to address members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9023,6518,5708,13554],"class_list":["post-39044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chrissy-houlahan","tag-featured","tag-phoenixville","tag-state-of-the-sixth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39045,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39044\/revisions\/39045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}