Rep. Lizzie Fletcher confronts Green New Deal, border security, Mueller at first town hall
U.S. Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, D-Houston, continued to chart a moderate course on the Democratic Party’s top issues Saturday at her first town hall as a member of Congress, staying firm in her position that the Affordable Care Act should be built upon, not scrapped, and that the Green New Deal should not be “the only part of the conversation.”
The wide-ranging town hall at Frostwood Elementary School in Spring Branch touched on a host of topics that gave Fletcher ample opportunity to tour her bipartisan bona fides, though a contingent of Republicans in the room did not mistake Fletcher for one of their own, heckling the new congresswoman over her opposition to a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“What the data shows is that the number of apprehensions outside of the ports of entry has actually gone down over time,” Fletcher said, eliciting a round of jeers from some members of the crowd, which totaled more than 400 people.
She then added: “I have always said I am open to the idea, if somebody says we need to have increased fencing here, we need to have increased security, that we should be listening to them.”
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