for next featured speaker is ftc commissioner carol mcsweeney, commissioner mcsweeney. >> what a polite audience. thank you very much. i want to say first of all good morning and what a pleasure it is to be here this morning. thank you to the f tc for hosting this discussion and thank you very much for all of the federal trade commission staff who have been working tirelessly on this issue for number of years and it has been a pleasure getting to know them. i've been at the ftc and as you can see from the discussion on the last panel working collaboratively with the ftc and state partners to fight the scourge of robo calls with the tools they have. i want to commend them for their efforts. i will start with the usual disclaimer that i am giving you my own views, not the official views of the ftc. but i think it is the official view of the ftc that robo calls are a top consumer complaint year-over-year and that we need to be using all of our tools in our toolbox to combat the problem. i want to start by noting that the origins of some of our authorities in this area, privacy and more spe