Gaveltogavel coverage of the u. S. House. Members will begin work on an bill. R trading live now to coverage of the u. S. House here on cspan. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father con rye. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of wisdom, we give you thanks for giving us another day. Prior to the great compromise, Benjamin Franklin addressed the constitutional convention. Quote, we indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. This situation of this assembly, groping, as it were, in the dark, to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, have we now forgotten our powerful friend . Lord, you are the powerful friend referred to by franklin and we turn again to you to ask that your wisdom might break through the political discussions of these days. Bless the members of the peoples house and all of congress with the insight and foresight to
The Senate Commerce subcommittee on Technology Held a hearing on illegal robo calls and what the federal Communications Commission is doing to combat them. South dakota senator john thune chaired the hearing. Illegal and abusive robo calls are a clear problem. Automated calls are not inherently negative. Many Important Services are carried out by such calls and companies have a preestablished relationship. If you are on the way to the airport and your flight is canceled, if theres a fraud alert on your credit card, or if you are being reminded of a medical important, those calls are important to consumers. Our focus today is on the unscrupulous use of robo calls. Almost a year ago, when i was chairman of the Commerce Committee, i subpoenaed an operation. Hes facing fcc penalties for making robo calls throughout the country. His testimony shed light on the reality that many robo callers view getting caught and getting fines as a cost of business. Acttroduced the deterrence with senator
Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Key fazio i move the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h. R. 3245, the restore the harmony way bridge act. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 3245 a bill to transfer a bridge over the roy bash river to the neujahr money river Bridge Authority antineujahr money and roy bash River Authority and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from oregon, mr. Defazio, and the gentleman from illinois, mr. Davis, will each control 20 minutes. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from oregon. Mr. Defazio sbreek, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks
Changes. Conservative radio host and former Illinois Republican congressman joe walsh says he is, quote, considering a primary bid against the absolutely unfit donald trump. Walsh told politico hes confident he could secure the resources and support to mount a challenge against the president. Were going to talk about all of this. But with me now from San Francisco is nbc road warrior ali vitali. Ali, talk to me about what the buzz is around jay inslee having left the competition. He was never somebody who could muster a lot of support in terms of percentage of the vote. But he had an outsized influence when it came to making the discussion of Climate Change central to the campaign. Reporter well, certainly he was someone who was able to bring Climate Change to the fore. I think on the campaign trail i was always struck by the number of people who he drew to his events. I am thinking specifically in places like New Hampshire voters are really energized by the Climate Change issue. And j
are and hold them accountable. talk to me about the technology. does it exist? can these companies figure out what a robo call is or where it s originating from? yes. it s imperfect as ever it s ever-emerging, it s ever-improving. but they can deploy network-level technology that applies before the call comes in and you the consumer don t have to do anything. there is no cost, no action required on your part. and they will screen out a large number of these illegal robo calls. and then they re going to make additionally available technology to either call-block or call-label additional calls at the will or the wish of the consumer. they also are going to deploy call authentication technology so that when you get that caller id and it looks like it s, you know, it s your area code. which is what most of the ones i get look like a real number. those are called spoofed.