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Comment by Ben Winters

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Consumer Federation of America director
there is a lot more that can be done by Congress, including giving more resources to not just FCC
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AI Verified Verified. The cited June 4, 2025 House hearing transcript identifies "Ben Winters, Director of AI and Privacy, Consumer Federation of America" as a witness, and later records Mr. Winters saying, "there is a lot more that can be done by Congress, including giving more resources to not just FCC ..." The transcript continues "but to State attorneys general," so the submitted text is an exact excerpt from a longer sentence and is correctly attributed to Ben Winters. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-119hhrg60677/html/CHRG-119hhrg60677.htm)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 6d ago
AI Verified Quote by Ben Winters (Consumer Federation of America, Director of AI and Data Privacy). The quote is a spoken Q&A response from the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing "Stopping Illegal Robocalls and Robotexts" (June 4, 2025). An independent web search confirmed the full statement: "...there is a lot more that can be done by Congress, including giving more resources to not just FCC but to State attorneys general" — the opinion text is an exact truncation. Because the original source_url pointed to a congress.gov event page (event 118333, while the hearing is 118334) that does not contain the spoken transcript, I updated source_url to the official govinfo hearing transcript (CHRG-119hhrg60677), the primary source. WebFetch of govinfo returned HTTP 403, but the quote was confirmed via search. Author attribution correct, year 2025 correct. Winters advocates Congress give the FCC (and others) more resources to combat robocalls, aligning with the "for" vote on statement #415 (directing the FCC to address AI-generated robocalls). Verified on positive search evidence. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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