Political Quotes

“I rise in support of H.R. 3888, the Anti-Slamming Amendments Act. Slamming is a deceptive practice of switching the consumer's long-distance service, either unknowingly or unwillingly. As a victim of slamming this last summer in my own household, like most of us, I asked my grown children, I said, who changed our long-distance carrier? Of course, they denied it. The carrier we were changed to was one who I would never use at all, Madam Speaker, because they have terrible labor relations, particularly in the Hispanic community. We received lots of calls in our district on the need to fight slamming, and today I believe we have a partial solution in front of us. It could have been much stronger, and I think the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Tauzin), chairman of the subcommittee, pointed that out. H.R. 3888 does two things. First, consumers are automatically switched back to their original carriers and are provided a credit for no more than 30 days worth of charges.”