Eliot Engel: “I stand today in strong support of my legislation, the Truth in Caller ID Act. This legislation has been developed in an…”

“I stand today in strong support of my legislation, the Truth in Caller ID Act. This legislation has been developed in an extremely bipartisan manner, and I want to thank and commend everybody who worked on it. I introduced this bill...because we needed an immediate change in our laws to help prevent identity theft, to crack down on fraudulent phone calls, and to protect legitimate uses of caller ID technology. I first found out about this just simply by reading an article; and when I realized that this is actually something that could be done, I was flabbergasted.”