{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1910", "Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen Hosts More Than 18,000 Constituents on Telephone Town Hall Focused on Affordability, Fighting Back Against Trump, Democracy, and Other Issues", "2026-09-01", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "House", "CO", "Brittany Pettersen", "P000620", "pettersen.house.gov", "pettersen", "https://pettersen.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx?DocumentTypeID=27", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Last night, Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) hosted a telephone town hall with more than 18,000 constituents from across the Seventh Congressional District to hear their concerns and discuss her work in Washington. On the call, Pettersen spoke to many issues, including continued rising costs, how she is fighting back against Donald Trump's disastrous policies, protecting our communities from data centers, and protecting people\u2019s right to vote.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m hearing directly from people how challenging these times are and how difficult it is to make ends meet. That\u2019s why we want to reach out and support you with the questions you have right now,\u201d said Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen last night to her constituents. \u201cIn our office, we often say we focus on three paths. One, is doing what we can do to mitigate the pain and suffering people are going through: signing on to lawsuits, demanding answers from the Trump administration, pushing back with letters, bringing bills, forcing votes on the House floor, and telling your stories.\u201d\n\nAt a time when Republican Members of Congress have shied away from talking to their constituents directly, Pettersen is committed to engaging with her constituents directly. She has held 22 town halls this Congress alone.\n\nSince the 119th Congress began, Pettersen has been focused on delivering results and fighting back for her constituents, including:\n\nBills introduced: 43\n\nBills signed into law: 5\n\nAmicus briefs signed standing up to the administration\u2019s cruelty and lawlessness: 28\n\nLetters Led: 15\n\nDirect actions in the 7th Congressional District during the 119th Congress:\n\nMore than $9,738,019 returned to constituents\n\nResolved federal casework issues: 2,415+\n\nTown Halls: 22\n\nConstituent letters responded to: 200,000\n\nGrants delivered to CO-07: $227,734,717.16+\n\nMobile office hours, resource fairs, and constituent service events hosted: 59+\n\nCommunity project funding delivered to CO-07: $3 million+\n\nIn the wake of the Aspen Acres and Willow Fires which devastated families and communities across the district, Congresswoman Pettersen provided valuable information to constituents, including directing them to her Wildfire Resource Hub. Earlier this summer, in response to these fires Pettersen introduced a suite of legislation aimed at helping communities prepare, respond to, and recover from increasingly destructive wildfires.\n\nDuring the town hall, constituents also expressed concern about Donald Trump\u2019s attempts to interfere with mail-in voting ahead of the November midterm election. As a member of the Colorado state legislature, Pettersen helped build one of the strongest and most secure mail in voting systems in the nation, She assured voters that despite the Trump Administration\u2019s attempts to sow confusion ahead of this year's election, mail in voting is safe, secure, and a critical tool to ensuring that all Coloradans\u2019 access to the ballot box. Pettersen has used her position in Congress to push the United States Postal Service to ensure that all voters, particularly those in rural areas, receive their mail in ballots on time and promised to continue fighting against the Trump Administrations\u2019 attempts to restrict voting access.\n\nPettersen also answered questions from constituents concerned about the impacts of data centers. She is a cosponsor of the Power for the People Act of 2026, which would set commonsense guardrails on the proliferation of data centers near communities, including ensuring data centers pay their fair share of energy costs, protecting energy grid stability, and requiring that data centers mitigate their pollution through clean energy resources.\n\nRepresentative Pettersen has also consistently voted against Donald Trump\u2019s agenda, including opposing over $70 billion in funding for immigration enforcement in the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.\u201d She has consistently voted against authorizing Donald Trump\u2019s war in Iran. Pettersen has joined two War Powers Resolutions to check executive power in regards to military action in Iran: H.Con. Res. 38, led by Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna, and H.Con. Res. 40, introduced by Reps. Greg Meeks, Jim Himes, and Adam Smith, the top Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs, Intelligence, and Armed Services Committees.\n\n###\n\nTo access downloadable, high-quality photos, click here. To stay up-to-date on what Pettersen is doing in Congress, follow her on Twitter here, Facebook here, or Instagram here. 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