BillTowne

And after his second election, they resolved to not negotiate with him or the Democraticly controlled Senate. Now, after months of refusing to hold conference meetings with the Senate to resolve budget bills, they are saying, "Why won't the Democrats negotiate with us?"

How is the GOP not totally to blame? If they want to fund the government, the can. Boehner can call a vote and it would pass. So, clearly, the House Republicans are using a shutdown to try and force the Democrats to gut the Affordable Care Act.

If the House Republicans offer, "We will fund the government if you gut Obamacare", would they consider it "negotiating" by the Democrats to come back with an offer, "We will fund the government if you drop the Hyde Amendment?"

Rachel from Card Services does not get her money from people who actually fall for the scam she is selling. That is just gravy to her. She gets her big money are are being paid for my the consumers themselves even if they don't buy the service. Your phone company is charging you a fee for caller ID. Your phone company pays the scammer for sending their caller ID information. They make their money, not from the obvious scam, but from the small fee paid by your phone company for the caller id number. Outlawing these charges would halt many of these illegal spam phone calls. This scam is run primarily through Pacific Telecom Communications Group, whose clients are pretty much entirely scammers of this type. To stop these scams, the FCC needs to required that phone companies provide caller ID free between phone companies. There is a petition to change this but it has no support. It is the source of this information: http://www.change.org/petitions/fcc-congress-president-obama-stop-phone-service-charges-to-provide-caller-id-to-other-phone-providers-2?utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=url_share&utm_campaign=url_share_before_sign

edit: There were requests for sources. Doubt was expressed about the existence of such fees for caller id. I have added some sources here. The original question was down voted so the responses are not immediately visible; so I moved them up.

http://telemarketerspam.wordpress.com/category/pacific-telecom-communications-group/

Pacific Telecom’s “Robo-Call” Revenue Sharing Scheme Revealed

Mr. Sanchez says that International Telephone Corporation will pay telemarketers $.00075 per outbound call where the Caller ID data is successfully transmitted. In telecom jargon, these are called “dips” into a caller ID database. The telephone company for the consumer who receives the unsolicited telemarketing call must pay Pacific Telecom for the right to “dip” into the caller ID database in order to retrieve the “calling name” information that’s displayed on the phone. Incidentally, the rate of $.00075 per outbound call appears to be a small fraction of the “dip” fee, suggesting that Pacific Telecom actually reaps most of the profits when an unsolicited call is made.

edit: additional source: http://markobreeze.hubpages.com/hub/Wholesale-VoiP--CNAM-dip

How CNAM dip compensation works

"dip" is the process by which telecom companies exchange caller ID information. This process is completed on a call by call basis and provides calling name and number to caller ID subscribers. Each time a call is being received by a number that supports caller id, the local phone company receiving the call compensates the phone company that the call originated from for providing them with CNAM - caller name.

another:http://www.grnvoip.com/index.php/features/other-features/dip-fees/

CNAM Dip Fees

Every call to a U.S. telephone number that has Caller ID (CID) enabled requires that the terminating phone company perform a lookup in one of several national databases (also known as line information database or LIDB) that contain all the U.S. subscriber names and numbers. This database lookup is called a CNAM dip. When this database is being ‘dipped’ the originating local phone company gets compensated by the terminating phone company – this is commonly referred to as a CNAM dip fee (or simply a dip fee). This compensation happens for every call where the calling party name is displayed to the called party – even if the call is not answered.

http://fonality.com/trixbox/forums/trixbox-forums/sip-and-iax-trunks-and-providers/outgoing-caller-id-explanation

In IP to IP calls the caller ID Name is passed in the SIP messaging. If the call needs to go to the PSTN in order to complete, then the receiving carrier will do what is called a Caller ID "dip" into the CNAM database to present the name to the called party. There is actually a small charge per dip that the receiving carrier has to pay in order to provide Caller ID service, thus why some carriers charge for it.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/voice_ip_comm/pgw/9/feature/module/9.7_3_/cnam.html#wp1155261

Technical description from CISCO. See "CNAM DIP" under "Billing Interface"

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For a budget, or any bill, to become a law, it has to be passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate then signed by the President. If the two houses pass different versions, they have a "conference committee" with members from both houses of Congress, the Senate and the House, to draft a compromise version that both houses then vote on. But the House has refused for months to form a conference committee with the Senate to resolve issues with the Senate version of the budget. So now, with the old spending authority expired, the only option is to pass a law authorizing a continuation of the previous budget levels to give them time so they can pass an new budget. This is called a "Continuing Resolution" since it just continues the current spending levels.

This refusal to negotiate with the Senate is part of the “Williamsburg Accord,” a strategy developed by the Republicans when they lost they last election for the House Republicans

to boycott all direct negotiations with President Obama, and then subsequently extended that boycott to negotiations with the Democratic Senate. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/30/dont-forget-what-the-shutdown-is-really-about/?wprss=rss_ezra-klein&clsrd)

We should not forget the woman who died. She was much more innocent in this than the 16 year-old.