Sorensen Hosts Bipartisan Telephone Town Hall to Discuss Tax Dollars Coming Back to Illinois

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) hosted a bipartisan telephone town hall discussion Wednesday evening with residents of Central and Northwestern Illinois. Sorensen invited Mayor of Peoria Rita Ali, Mayor of Freeport Jodi Miller, and Mayor of Coal Valley Mike Bartels to discuss investments Sorensen secured from Congress to deliver clean drinking water to families, fix local infrastructure, and expand affordable housing. 

“Bringing taxpayer funds back from Washington is one of the most important things that I can do as your member of Congress. It is something that we can do to ease the burden on property taxes,” Sorensen said during the town hall event. “Over the past year-and-a-half, I’ve been trying to work across the aisle in every place I can to secure that funding back home. To me, it doesn’t matter if anybody has an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ behind their name. I want to be one of the most bipartisan members of Congress. And, in my role, I will never be anything else than that.” 

Around 2,500 constituents joined Sorensen’s town hall on Wednesday evening. During the town hall, Sorensen answered questions about issues of importance to families in Illinois’ 17th District, including strengthening Social Security and Medicare, local investments from Congress to reduce crime, and more. 

You can listen to the full recording of Sorensen’s town hall here.  

Congressman Eric Sorensen serves on the House Committee on Agriculture and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Prior to serving in Congress, Sorensen was a local meteorologist in Rockford and the Quad Cities for nearly 20 years. His district includes Illinois’ Quad Cities, Rockford, Peoria, and Bloomington-Normal. 

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