We're gathering evidence right now. We're looking at how it's worked in the past.

I am a huge believer that if you empower the population that you are there to serve and protect, and they can stop a scam in their tracks, ultimately there is less work for attorneys general, district attorneys, and others to do, and that…

I think we all agree, we need to punish the criminals who scam our seniors.

I absolutely respect the Congress's efforts to collect outstanding debts. I just think that more focus needs to be on how those calls are made and doing so in a way that is more transparent.

We are hopeful that as the Congress considers funding bills and other initiatives, that there be resources put in specifically to driving home that message and focusing on education.

I know Senator Casey shares my views on this issue.

I would ask that we give telephone companies the tools to block scammers.

Scammers are only successful if they can pretend to be someone else, right?

We need, in law enforcement, to have all of the tools necessary to stop this.

Look, we have Do Not Call lists, and often times seniors will say to me and Senator Casey, when we are back in Pennsylvania, 'But they still called.'

I would respectfully request to this Committee that you carefully look at the effects of permitting debt collectors, working on behalf of the IRS, to make telephonic calls to people whom they are collecting debts.