List of significant United States town hall meetings

Town halls are often a low-key way for national politicians to connect or reconnect with their constituents during recesses, when they are in their home districts away from D.C.

[1] A number of town hall meetings in the summer of 2009 focused on healthcare and the introduction of new laws regarding health insurance.

[4] Hundreds of thousands of accounts tweeted at the event, but only a small number got official responses.

The promise of repealing and possibly replacing the Affordable Care Act led to an increased number of town hall meetings in the winter of 2017, shortly after Donald Trump took office.

[5] These meetings were again dominated by protests and fear that changes to healthcare policy would harm constituents or their families.

Attendees of a town hall meeting on the subject of health care reform in West Hartford, Connecticut, waiting for the meeting with U.S. Representative John B. Larson , in 2009