Excerpt from Telemarketing Fraud and S. 568, the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Protection Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Consumer of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, March 18, 1993 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:05 a.m. in room SR-253, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Richard H.Bryan (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Staff members assigned to this hearing: Moses Boyd, senior counsel, and Claudia A. Simons, staff counsel; and Sherman Joyce, minority staff counsel. Opening Statement Of Senator Bryan Senator Bryan. Let me take this opportunity to welcome everyone to our hearing this morning. This morning, the Consumer Subcommittee will revisit an issue that has been one of my priorities since I entered the Senate in 1989 - telemarketing fraud. In the past two Congresses and again in this session. Senator McCain, who joins us this morning, and I, have introduced legislation to combat a significant national problem of telemarketing fraud. I am pleased to note for the record that our distinguished colleague, Senator Gorton, the ranking member of this Consumer Subcommittee, is also a cosponsor of this year's legislation, and I am optimistic, as in the past, that we are going to be able to get this legislation out of the subcommittee and past the Senate, and this is the year we have an opportunity of enacting this piece of legislation into law. Senators Hatch and Biden have also recently introduced telemarketing legislation, legislation which attacks this problem from the criminal side. I support their approach, and believe that it complements the civil enforcement provisions in the legislation that Senator McCain and I have been working on for the past 4 years. We cannot do enough to combat this ever-growing problem, and I believe that both of these bills make significant strides in thwarting the telemarketing fraud problem that confronts our Nation. While there are many legitimate telemarketers, the industry has also unfortunately become rife with scam artists and other crooked operators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.