Congress Is Ready to Attack a Common Enemy: Robocallers [telecom]

Swamped by angry constituents demanding action and bedeviled themselves by obnoxious and fraudulent robocalls, Congress is springing to action.

By Catie Edmondson

WASHINGTON - Representative Darren Soto's phone rang just a half-hour into the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing this week on the surge of robocalls clogging the nation's cellphone lines. He ducked off to take the call only to hear a recorded voice float a lucrative offer to buy his home.

"We're all being inundated," Mr. Soto, Democrat of Florida, said plaintively when his turn came to speak at the hearing.

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***** Moderator's Note *****

I disagree with Ms. Edmondson: Congress is not "springing" into

*ANYTHING*. It is oozing toward another round of hearings and press releases and new bills "introduced" by every representative that wants some free ink for their biennial exercise in what Barney Frank called "Sloping the hogs."

There are certain exchange codes in the Washington, D.C. area that

*EVERY* marketing company knows are off-limits, and the phones served by those exchanges *NEVER* get robocalls. Those phone numbers are reserved for those who can actually hurt the profiteers, not for hoi polloi, and Mr. Soto will no doubt be changing his cell phone number from whatever it used to be in Florida to one of those reserved for the hog farmers who pick low-lying fruit and money off the trees.

You and me, dear reader: *WE* are the hogs.

Bill Horne Moderator

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