Political Quotes

“I rise today to address the antislamming legislation before us. I believe that this bill, S. 1618, is a bill that we must act on quickly and decisively. The problem which this legislation seeks to address described, I guess, by the euphemism ``slamming,'' is one that is a growing concern to people in my State and, I suspect, to almost all the other States represented in this body. In Michigan, during the last year, complaints about this practice, which is the changing of an individual's or customer's long-distance service without their knowledge and approval, has risen from relative obscurity to becoming, next to billing problems, the second largest source of complaints received by Michigan's Public Service Commission. People find that through no act of their own, or certainly no intentional act of their own, they have had their long-distance service changed usually with negative consequences. In our State, the negative consequences usually fall into two categories, often both happen simultaneously: On the one hand, people find that their service level and quality is diminished; on the other hand, they find that their bills are getting higher.”