Sunset Bay Association

Log in
Forgot password

Tom Reed Announces Town Hall Meetings on Saturday, Jan. 30

Tue, January 26, 2016 9:33 AM | Deleted user

Press Release

Tom Reed will hold four town hall meetings on Saturday, January 30 throughout Western New York.

“We’re looking forward to spending the weekend with our friends and neighbors from around Western New York so we can listen to their thoughts and take their suggestions to Washington,” Reed said. “From the roughly 180 town halls we’ve held so far, it’s clear the real solutions come from moms and dads, small business employees and our entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats in Washington. The voices of taxpayers on the ground are the voices we need to be listening to so that we can better care for the places we call home.”

Town halls will be held Saturday, January 30 as follows:

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Hanover Town Hall, 68 Hanover Street, Silver Creek

Other locations and/or additional information.

Comments

  • Tue, February 02, 2016 10:50 AM | Deleted user
    From Kelly Borrello:

    I went to the local Town Hall Meeting on Saturday 1/30 put on by Federal Congressman Tom Reed. Below is a quick summary to share with our membership. These topics came about from questions from the audience.

    1. 2016 Spending Plan - Explained Congress only has spending approval on 1/3 of the $3.5 Trillion total spending. They approve Non-Defense (discretionary) and Defense spending. The new spending plan reduces expenses in these categories to help reduce the deficit but retain enough defense spending to protect the troops.

    2. NRG - Congressman Reed is pushing all parties involved to repower the plant and either drop or settle the lawsuit.

    3. Social Security - Congressman Reed explained more is now going out of Social Security than what is coming in. He is a proponent of the federal government starting to pay back the loans it took to Social Security.

    4. Student Success Act - Tom supported repealing No Child Left Behind and the new program Student Success Act. This allows local entities, be it at the State or lower level, to design their own curriculums.

    5. Obama Executive Actions - questions were asked as to why Congress was stagnate on some Presidential issues and why the "power of the purse" isn't being used to block the Executive Actions, especially ObamaCare. Congressman Reed explained many of the items Congress took no action on are blanket approvals allowing bureaucrats to work out the details which usually causes increased spending and the bureacrats then have no accountability to the voting public. He votes against bills that give blanket approvals and supports bills with specific actions, costs and measurability. Regarding using "power of the purse" Congressman explained they only have control of 1/3 of the spending budget and Obama Care spending was put into an Other Mandatory Budget line which Congress doesn't have control over.

    6. Welfare - Congressman Reed supports welfare reform, especially changing the metrics and rewards to support States that reduce the number of people on Welfare and moved into the workforce.

    7. Affordable Care Act - lively discussion was had about the merits of the Affordable Care Act, vs. Universal Healthcare vs. how it used to be. He explained he supports tort reform, which drives up the medical industry costs. He supports empowering the individuals and the doctors (not the goverment) to control the costs and better align healthcare costs. He believes health care being private sector driven will result in better cost control.

    8. Syrian Refugees - Congressman Reed said his first priority is the safety of American Citizens. 38 countries had a waiver allowing their citizens entry into the United States with just a passport and without a Visa process. That has been revised stating if the citizen has been in a country within the last five years with history of hostility towards the United States they are not automatically allowed entry. He is working towards improving the immigrant vetting process and have the agencies work together to coordinate final approval.

    9. The local water lines under the state road 5/20 were brought up and Congressman Reed will share the information with our State politicians.

    It was an informative, lively meeting that lasted about 1.25 hours.


    Kelly Borrello
    Link
Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software