Congress can help the poor by repealingthe "Federal Access Charge" on land line phone bills. In simpler terms---"access Robbery".
   Prior to divestiture there were two main land phone co's(AT&T and GTE) with no access fees. Today, we are back to two main phone co's (AT&T and VERIZON),yet we now have high access fees. What started as a dollar is now a high monthly charge.These billion$ are gifts of million$ to ceo's and top executives. In 2007 the top two at AT&T were compensated $105,434,054.00. While in 2006 the ceo of VERIZON was gifted $21,206,700.00. For 2009 AT&T's greedy board recommends an increase of 7,000,000,000 (billion)shares of common stock. Who benefits? Companies merged years ago. Congress can help the poor on social security, the rural poor, and the city poor. This includes small business.We need dollars for jobs.The American people deserve better than this ACCESS ROBBERY>