Ask your Senators to Support and Strengthen Effective Anti-Robocall Legislation
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
If you can't get through to one office, try another. There is no benefit to calling one office over another. Leaving a voicemail is as good as reaching a live person.
Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
Call the SF office first, but try the other offices if you can’t get through. If you can’t get a live person, leave a voicemail and also send a follow-up email written in your own words.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I am asking you to sponsor and support a Senate version of HR.3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act which passed the House on a bipartisan vote of 429-3. While HR.3375 contains many good provisions, I ask that you strengthen it by holding American phone companies financially liable for failing to block unwanted telemarketing and robo-calls regardless of where they originate.
Background
We are being overwhelmed by unwanted telemarketer and robo-calls, so much so that it has become a form of harassment. A large portion of these calls are scams that cause enormous emotional distress and defraud consumers of ten billion dollars per year. Many people are now simply refusing to answer any call from an unrecognized number. But that means that legitimate phone calls often go unanswered. Additionally, businesses that have to respond to customers, or organizations working with their members, are left unprotected from distraction, disruption, and harassment.
In response to constituent pressure, earlier this year the Senate passed the weak TRACED Act (S.151), but that is insufficient and misleading. HR.3365, which the House passed, is much stronger. It is supported by more than 80 consumer rights groups, including Consumer Reports and the National Consumer Law Center. But HR.3365 still fails to provide adequate financial penalties that are needed to force American phone companies to actually block these calls.