Tom Cole on [🇺🇸 Congress, Feb 2026] Directing the FC…

Tom Cole

U.S. Representative; Appropriations Chair

Robocalls.—The agreement directs the FCC to prioritize resources to combat illegal robocalling and caller ID spoofing. [...] Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Generated Robocalls.—Congress commends the FCC for adopting a declaratory ruling effectively banning the use of AI-generated robocalls, but remains concerned that rapidly developing AI technology is becoming dangerously harder to detect. The agreement directs the FCC, within 60 days of enactment of this act, to brief the Committees on illegal AI-generated robocalls.

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[🇺🇸 Congress, Feb 2026] Directing the FCC to address AI-generated robocalls

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AI Verified The quote directly addresses the full statement: it says "The agreement directs the FCC" regarding "illegal AI-generated robocalls" and also commends the FCC’s existing ban, showing clear support for directing the FCC to address AI-generated robocalls. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote explicitly says, "The agreement directs the FCC" on AI-generated robocalls and notes Congress "remains concerned," which clearly supports directing the FCC to address them. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified Verified: the official Congressional Record PDF dated 2026-01-14 contains the quoted passage on p. 97 (Congressional Record page H818) inside the section titled “EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MR. COLE,” and the omitted [...] spans intervening paragraphs only; the quoted portions themselves match verbatim. Official Congress/House sources identify that Mr. Cole as Representative Tom Cole, Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, so the stored author, date, and source URL are consistent. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/119/crec/2026/01/14/172/10/CREC-2026-01-14.pdf)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

Disputed The quoted passage is real and appears verbatim in the cited January 14, 2026 Congressional Record House material (page H818 / PDF pp. 96–97), aside from normal PDF line breaks and hyphenation. However, the source attributes that text to an "EXPLANATORY STATEMENT SUBMITTED BY MR. COLE, CHAIR OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS," and says it functions as a joint explanatory statement; it is not specifically attributed in the source to "U.S. House of Representatives" as the author. That makes the attribution imprecise/misattributed. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-172/issue-10/house-section/article/H811-1)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Unverifiable Quote attributed to the U.S. House of Representatives (2026): explanatory-statement language directing the FCC to "prioritize resources to combat illegal robocalling and caller ID spoofing," commending the FCC for the declaratory ruling effectively banning AI-generated robocalls, and directing a briefing to the Committees within 60 days. Checked: (1) Year 2026 — recent and relevant. (2) Vote alignment — vote "for" statement 415 ("Directing the FCC to address AI-generated robocalls") is clearly correct: the quote IS Congress directing the FCC to act on AI-generated robocalls. (3) Source — source_url is a congress.gov Congressional Record PDF (CREC-2026-01-14) that returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching. I attempted to corroborate the verbatim text via multiple web searches (including the distinctive phrase "rapidly developing AI technology is becoming dangerously harder to detect"), but Congressional Record PDFs are not well indexed and I could not positively confirm the exact text in the source. The language is stylistically consistent with a joint explanatory statement accompanying an appropriations act, and the vote/attribution are consistent, but because the source itself blocks access and the verbatim text could not be independently confirmed, I am marking this ai_unverifiable rather than verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 3mo ago

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