{"id":141525,"date":"2025-04-07T20:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141525"},"modified":"2025-04-07T20:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T00:19:47","slug":"congressman-mackenzie-to-participate-in-live-cnn-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141525","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Mackenzie to Participate in Live CNN Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Congressman Ryan Mackenzie, representing the Greater Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania\u2019s 7th Congressional District, will participate in a nationally televised town hall hosted by CNN on Thursday, April 10 at 9:00 PM ET, alongside a bipartisan group of fellow U.S. Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted in Washington, D.C. and moderated by CNN\u2019s Jake Tapper and Kaitlan Collins, the event will bring together lawmakers from both parties to answer questions from a live audience made up of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents \u2014 including constituents from each member\u2019s district. Joining Congressman Mackenzie will be Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), Rep. Jahana Hayes (D-CT), and Rep. Derek Tran (D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to joining my colleagues on both sides to answer questions and discuss the leading issues of the day,\u201d\u00a0said Congressman Mackenzie.\u00a0\u201cWe live in divided times, and it\u2019s critical that we be able to come together to speak openly and honestly about the issues affecting Americans here in the Greater Lehigh Valley and throughout the country. I\u2019m hopeful that we can cut through the noise and talk about delivering real, bipartisan solutions for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Mackenzie has made community outreach and accessibility a cornerstone of his service, dating back to his time as a Pennsylvania State Representative. In just over three months since taking office, he\u2019s opened four district offices, attended numerous public events, and is regularly meeting with constituents to hear from them directly. This will mark the Congressman\u2019s 2nd town hall in three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nArnaud Armstrong<br \/>\nCommunications Director<br \/>\nCongressman Ryan Mackenzie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013 Congressman Ryan Mackenzie, representing the Greater Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania\u2019s 7th Congressional District, will participate in a nationally televised town hall hosted by CNN on Thursday, April 10 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=141525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressman Mackenzie to Participate in Live CNN Town Hall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/us-ryan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}