I'm a strong supporter of this program, and I think it provides what we're hearing about today.

I think this issue is something that needs to be looked, because one of the concerns I have is that sometimes it's not so easy to deal with the Federal Government.

I think what's happened over the last decade is we've gotten a tremendous amount done, but we've lost some focus.

How can we make it easier?

I firmly believe we should make them permanent and would further encourage investment not only in this field but in other fields of manufacturing across this country.

Thank you. Mr. McCormick, I wanted to follow up with you.

I want to thank you for holding this important hearing.

I would liken it to Whack-a-Mole.

I appreciate your willingness to speak with your industry colleagues, and I look forward to your supplement.

If you're a bad actor, do they even send the notices?

As this committee draws its conclusions from Chairman Rockefeller's report, what is your industry's view on having one Federal standard, whether it's the banning of third-party or some other solution?

We would also be interested in looking at, is making sure that the tools--on the law enforcement end, that they have the tools that they need to go after the bad actors.

According to the financial information that the Committee staff has reviewed, telephone companies earn a dollar or two every single time they place a third-party--an unauthorized third-party charge on their customer's bill.

Now, one reason, however, the telephone companies don't really crack down on crammers is, they make money from cramming.

So do the math. That's well over a billion dollars in profit.

I think there was somebody who--who kindly mentioned the fact that, you know, you would want to make sure--and I think it was you--that, you know, while the Federal regulators had authority to do whatever they needed to do against…

The way to eliminate that, without having to go through, you know, the heroic efforts of most people on this panel, is to simply ban these third-party charges.

I thank Senator Rubio for his leadership on this issue and for the important issues he has raised today because he is absolutely right that class warfare is unproductive. The proposals the President has made are not serious in terms of how…