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Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act into law: “I to thank Chairmen Thune and Pallone, Chairmen
applaud Congress for working in a bipartisan manner Wicker and Doyle, Ranking Members Walden and Latta,
to combat illegal robocalls and malicious caller ID and Senator Markey for their leadership in seeing this
spoofing. And I thank the President and Congress for important piece of legislation through. I want to thank
the additional tools and flexibility that this law affords the President for his strong support of this bill. And I
us. Specifically, I am glad that the agency now has thank the American people for never letting us forget
a longer statute of limitations during which we can how fed up they are with scam, spoofed robocalls. It’s
pursue scammers and I welcome the removal of a their voices that power our never-ceasing push to fight
previously-required warning we had to give to unlawful back against the scourge of robocalls and malicious
robocallers before imposing tough penalties.” “I want spoofing.” (January 1, 2020) fcc.gov

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