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The legislation would require telemarketers to identify themselves and what they are selling within the first 30 seconds of the call.

Since the title isn't very informative but nobody clicks on links anymore.
Does anyone really get calls from actual telemarketers anymore? I only get scam calls about border services seizing illegal packages in my name at customs. >

I get prospected by people doing cold calls, trying to sell me their software or trying to get me to hire their agency all the time.
Phone calls should be part of any sales operation but the repeated cold calling needs to stop. >

I don't even get that, mine are all routed through various random numbers in my area code in the hopes I'll answer, and then they hang up just to get info on if/when I'll answer a call. >

Once I started to let those spoofed number calls ring out (not decline them), I mostly stopped getting robo calls. I get maybe one or two a week now. >

I like to pretend I’m interested in their products and services. Once I had a guy call for the duct cleaning scam. One bedroom in my house? $1,200. A 17 bedroom palatial estate on 5 hectares? 1.2 billion. 
I spent thirty minutes arguing over the math, got him to admit they don’t have any training, belittled and berated his poor salesmanship, and asked him if his ducks would want to be cleaned this way. When he said he didn’t have ducks, I berated him again that we only keep ducks in palaces here, because unlike the heathens in India, we worship actual sacred animals. 
It was interesting that by the end of the call he accused me of scamming him. 
Same scammers called my wife and said “lady I am your husband now” while I was in the room on speakerphone. I told him he could keep her, but he had to pay child support because I would keep the ducks.