{"id":275852,"date":"2026-08-31T16:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275852\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:02:11","slug":"kelly-to-hold-telephone-town-hall-to-support-pennsylvania-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/275852\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly to hold telephone town hall to support Pennsylvania veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;\u00a0Today, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) announced he will hold a live telephone town hall to support military veterans and military families on Wednesday, September 2. Kelly is scheduled to be joined by local county Veteran Service Officers (VSOs) and other veterans&#8217; organizations to help answer questions from constituents.<\/p>\n<p>More than 42,000 civilian veterans call Pennsylvania&#8217;s 16th Congressional District home, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/iqconnect.house.gov\/iqextranet\/iqClickTrk.aspx?&amp;cid=PA03MK&amp;crop=0000.0000.0000.0000&amp;report_id=&amp;redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.census.gov%2fmycd%2f%3fst%3d42%26cd%3d16&amp;redir_log=207390603529288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Census data.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pennsylvanians who serve in our Armed Forces have sacrificed to protect and defend our great nation. This town hall will provide them with more information to make sure they receive the benefits and assistance they have earned,&#8221;\u00a0Rep. Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, more than\u00a030,000 constituents\u00a0joined Rep. Kelly&#8217;s telephone town halls. 30,000 constituents would fill the Erie Insurance Arena for a hockey game\u00a0more than 4 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DETAILS<\/p>\n<p>Who: U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, Veteran Service Officers, and other guests<br \/>What: Live telephone town hall<br \/>When: Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026 at 6:00p.m. ET<br \/>Pin-less Participant Dial-In:\u00a0855-531-1063<br \/>Livestream:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/iqconnect.house.gov\/iqextranet\/iqClickTrk.aspx?&amp;cid=PA03MK&amp;crop=0000.0000.0000.0000&amp;report_id=&amp;redirect=https%3a%2f%2fwww.facebook.com%2fMikeKellyPA&amp;redir_log=970998313803249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook.com\/MikeKellyPA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212;\u00a0Today, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) announced he will hold a live telephone town hall to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-275852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}