Taking advantage of all forums, tools and technology available Congresswoman Lois Frankel (FL-22) on Wednesday spoke at an Affordable Care Act implementation workshop for hospitals and community health centers, participated in an immigration town hall open to public and held a telephone town hall with 9,250 constituents.

At around 7:30 p.m. Frankel placed a live call to nearly 50,000 residents of Florida’s 22^nd congressional district inviting them to a live telephone town hall. Over 9,000 constituents joined the event.  Frankel took questions on a range of topics including: Syria, immigration reform, the Affordable Care Act, the veteran’s disability claims backlog, gun violence, the deficit, education and other topics.  Participants engaged in three interactive poll questions on immigration, national and local priorities.

As a representative of 700,000 constituents and nearly 140,000 seniors, Frankel has been doing a wide-range of events and forums since being sworn into Congress in January.

“I’m reaching thousands of constituents using cutting-edge technology to talk to more and more people,” Frankel said.

Frankel is engaging with constituents through all avenues and in just the past two weeks during her listening tour has heard directly from South Floridians on a range of critical issues. She’s met with her local veteran’s advisory group, leaders in the business, technology and manufacturing communities, toured local businesses and the Broward County Courthouse. She’s had face-to-face meetings with constituents on preventing tax refund fraud, passing immigration reform and spurring economic development, held workshops on Affordable Care Act implementation and participated in a town hall and telephone town hall.

This follows Frankel’s work from Day 1 in office. She has held roundtables on issues like immigration reform, human trafficking, the veterans claims backlog, economic development and gun violence prevention; toured and visited local businesses, municipalities, hospitals, schools and held Q&A sessions and discussions; and helped lead events on important issues such as making college more affordable for students and the impact of across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester.

In addition, Frankel is utilizing technology to communicate with constituents through in person events, telephone town halls, e-newsletters, social media and her website.

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