Reply #3: It is a FREE number, which really pays off when you occasionally get

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some staffer in a republi-CON's office who may want to get in your face and argue and try to pick a fight with you. I suspect (devious me!) that maybe they think - oh YEAH? I'll show you, damned liberal! I'll keep you on the line and run up your phone bill! Joke's on them, because this is a toll free number. I had this happen when calling Orrin Hatch's office one day. Some snot-nose answered the phone, and really got belligerent with me. I gave it back to him, and stayed on it as long as he did. He wouldn't give up. Well, neither did I. When the conversation finally ended, this is the exact thought that popped into my mind - he thinks he can stick it to me by running up my phone bill.