House Getting 40,000 Calls an Hour

• By Daniel Newhauser
• Roll Call Staff
• March 17, 2010, 5:07 p.m.

House administrators estimate that Capitol switchboard operators are fielding roughly 40,000 calls per hour from constituents and that perhaps just as many callers are experiencing busy signals a full day after radio host Rush Limbaugh gave his listening audience the Capitol switchboard phone number and encouraged them to call it.