The 10 a.m. event at Blasco Library is the latest in a series of Casey meetings with constituents statewide.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey will hold a town hall meeting Saturday at Blasco Library.

The public is invited to the event in Hirt Auditorium, 160 E. Front St. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. The meeting starts at 10.

Constituents have raised a number of concerns during a series of town hall meetings that began in Philadelphia in March, said Jacklin Rhoads, Casey's press secretary.

"The questions and concerns Senator Casey has been hearing throughout his town hall series have varied, spanning national issues to hyperlocal. Most recently, questions have been focused on the future of health care, climate change, economic concerns and national security," Rhoads said.

Casey has been an especially outspoken opponent of Republican health care proposals. The Senate bill now awaiting a vote "sells out the middle class, hurts seniors and children and devastates individuals with disabilities to finance tax breaks for the very rich," Casey said in June.

It also "raises premiums for middle class families, cuts nursing home care for seniors and will force children with disabilities to be institutionalized," Casey said. "The bill decimates Medicaid, which provides health care for over 722,000 Pennsylvanians with a disability and 1.1 million children."

Since the Philadelphia town hall, Casey has hosted similar meetings in Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Altoona, Harrisburg and Lancaster. He also held a town hall meeting televised statewide in April.

Casey will run for a third term in the senate in 2018. A half-dozen Republicans so far are in the race.

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