our next featured speaker is ftc acting chairman maureen ohlhausen. she will be delivering her remarks via prerecorded video. >> thank you for coming to today's robocall forum. while i can't join you in person, i'm thrilled that the ftc and the fcc are co-hosting this event to explore the problem of illegal robocalls. and thank you to fcc chairman ajit pai and to fcc and ftc staff who made this possible. like you, i hate when my phone rings due to an illegal robocall. now, this problem isn't new, but it does seem to come in waves. in the late 2000s, we saw that robocalls were a growing problem, and the ftc responded by amending the telemarketing sales rule to prohibit the vast majority of robocalls or prerecorded sales calls. unfortunately, changes in telephone technology, primarily the growth of voiceover internet protocol and automated dialing software have made it much easier for telemarketers to make large volumes of robocalls with spoof caller i.d. information, for a fraction of a cent per call, often from foreign countries, with nothing more tha