[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 194 (Thursday, December 5, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H9281]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             STOP ROBOCALLS

  (Mr. LIPINSKI asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LIPINSKI. Madam Speaker, robocalls, just mentioning them is 
enough to make anyone's blood boil.
  Robocalls interrupt our time with family and friends, scam people out 
of their hard-earned money while spoofing numbers to make calls look 
local, and even clog up the phone lines of hospital emergency rooms. In 
2018, Americans, collectively, received 48 billion robocalls.
  I cosponsored legislation earlier this year to stop robocalls, and 
the House voted yesterday to pass the final version, which we expect to 
be signed into law.
  The TRACED Act strengthens penalties and extends the statute of 
limitations on violations; it requires phone companies to authenticate 
where calls are coming from and help customers easily block them at no 
extra charge; and it requires continued work by the Federal Government 
to combat emerging robocall methods.
  This is a clear win for the American people and shows what we can do 
here when we work together.

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