numbered known as the traced act it has bipartisan support from lawmakers like sen john thune a south dakota republican and chairman of the subcommittee and sen ed markey a massachusetts democrat a call log displayed via an app designed to identify and block fraudulent calls on a cellphone in orlando fla aug 1 2017 these criminals are taunting us because they think we wont act saunders warned that if the rate of telemarketing nonscam calls continues at its current pace in 2019 its predicted that there will be over 112 billion nonscam telemarketing robocalls in the us the report also cited youmail a developer of robocall blocking software that found that in november 2018 there were 51 billion calls placed for the month 1696 million calls per day 71 million calls per hour 2000 calls per second and an average of 157 calls per person but so far only 6790 of that figure has been collected according to the wall street journal more check out the apps that will intercept robocalls and tell you when theyre done sen john thune speaks during a senate finance committee hearing in washington march 12 2019 even senators families are urging for something to be done congress has waited too long to take more aggressive action on robocalls and these scammers think that theyre invincible i think having in our toolbox the ability to enforce criminal penalties will help so i texted back on it he said okay just so you know you just called the united states senate line and this is being recorded and we know that this is an instance of fraud theres no single silver bullet to the robocall problem some lawmakers hope to tackle the scourge of spam calls with the telephone robocall abuse criminal enforcement and deterrence act bloomberg via getty images file experts at thursdays hearing like kevin rupy a partner of the law firm wiley rein who testified on behalf of ustelecomthe broadband association said the industry needs to attack the issue from multiple angles to ensure enforcement gardner rcolo is part of a bipartisan group of senators tackling illegal robocalls there has to be a holistic comprehensive approach that includes tools that includes enforcement that includes technologies rupy said but also education the wall street journal reported last month that since 2015 the fcc has ordered violators of the telephone consumer protection act to pay 2084 million according to the fccs inaugural february report on the issue the commission received 5780172 do not call complaints with about 65 percent of the complaints classified as robocalls in fiscal year 2018 rupy compared the technology to a notary public and said it works to authenticate the number that a call is originating from and enhance traceback efforts sen brian schatz the ranking democrat on the senate subcommittee on communications technology innovation and the internet said he received a text message from his mother on tuesday i think the problem is that the people that are being