Good afternoon. Im attorney general josh stein of north carolina. I want to thank you as we are here to make this major announcement. Im pleased to be here with my colleagues attorney general Gordon Macdonald and attorney general leslie, and patrick halley, of u. S. Telecom and representatives a major Telephone Company spirit 12 companies have joined us today and they are at t, bandwidth, comcast,nk, charter, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robo calls. To first, i would like introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general Gordon Macdonald. Stein forou general your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. Issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robo calls. Us, theually all of scam calls are ubiquitous and regular annoyance. A veryo calls are
As well as representatives from a number of major Telephone Companies. 12 companies have joined us today. They are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, comcast, consolidated, frontier, sprint, tmobile, u. S. Cellular, verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. First, i want to introduce my colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Gordon thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial scammers who prey particularly on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of un
Today, and they are at t, bandwidth, centurylink, charter, frontier,onsolidated, cellular,mobile, u. S. Verizon, and windstream. Today we are announcing major bipartisan publicprivate effort to stop robocalls. Myst, i want to introduce colleague and fellow cochair of this initiative, New Hampshire attorney general gordon macdonald. Thank you, general stein, and thank you for your leadership on this issue. The essence of our role as attorneys general is to protect the public. No single issue comes close to generating the volume of consumer complaints as robocalls. For virtually all of us, the spam calls are a ubiquitous and regular annoyance. But robocalls are also a very effective device for illegal conduct conducted by financial particularlyprey on the vulnerable, putting at risk their savings, their identity, their security. The memorandum of understanding we are announcing today will significantly enhance our efforts as attorneys generals to. Rotect the public we serve it is a very
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45minute filibuster to express concern of the administrations economic decisionmaking process for communities of color in particular in north omaha. President kelly, speaker arch and members of the 108th nebraska legislature, family, friends and distinguished guests, my fellow nebraskans, over the past 11 days, brutal Winter Weather sub zero temperatures back to back blizzards, unrelenting paralyzing winds that much of our state stranding hundreds of travelers preventing farmers and ranchers from getting farms and taking care of livestock, shuttering businesses, challenging our power grid, to meet this the emergency, nebraskans helped nebraskans just as we do in every single time countless times before. State troopers, sheriffs deputies, police officers, our First Responders, snow fighters from across the state moved swiftly to rescue thoserapped by the storms, clear roads, dig out communities and agriculture. These brave and women represent the best and the backbone of our state Publi