ms. greisman: correct. senator blumenthal: any other areas where your authority really has to be routed to give you the worst the jurisdiction. ms. greisman: nothing readily comes to mind. let me think about that. senator blumenthal: that is the basis for legislative changes. to broaden your authorities so that enforcement can be more effective. because that authority essentially turns these violations into garden-variety scams. they are dressed up in new technology, but they are basically scams, con artist, using different technology. what you need is the resources and the authority to go after them. ms. greisman: i agree. thank you. senator blumenthal: you mentioned, assistant attorney general, you'll been talking in the working groups against some of the cutting edge issues. can you give us some ideas of what those are? ,r. dandurand: i defer to them because i do not sit on those calls. i do not want to talk about something i am not first in. our no call people who were on those calls can do that. i woul

ms. greisman. >> are discussed in calls with our colleagues at the state level. the different types of tech logical solutions we've been stimulating the marketplace to develop discussing offers with common carriers as i have alluded to before to be more proactive in their anti-fraud effort. >> do you have data how often the do-not-call registry is abuse? >> that's an interesting question and senator mccaskill referred to that earlier. to the best of my knowledge we are not aware of telemarketers or others accessing the do-not-call registry in an improper manner. in our law enforcement work with prop up for 100 cases involving the do-not-call provisions. it is truly the exception for any single one of the telemarketers to access the registry. they are getting calling minus from other sources. >> i believe the other sources are readily available to them and they don't need to abuse the registry. >> that is correct. >> they can do sequential dialing and it's easy to find out the exchanges besides that they can simply go through numbers one by one. and they have publ

ms. lois greisman, who is the associate director of the division of marketing practices in the bureau of consumer protection at the federal trade commission. finally, we will hear from joe dandurand who is the deputy attorney general in missouri. and i want to thank all of you for joining us, and we will start with you, ms. blase spent chairman collins, ranking member mccaskill, and members of the committee, thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak for thousands of american citizens who constantly receive unwanted telephone solicitations. as a small business owner working out of my home, my phone number has also found its way to telemarketers who target business. i know there are more critical issues to address in today's world, but there are few that affect as many of us on a daily basis as a barrage of robocalls constantly interrupt our lives. in addition to scammers posing as the irs and the fbi trying to steal my savings, i've been bombarded by unwanted and irrelevant sales calls. i telemarketers tell me that my credit card processor is not in compliance with government regul