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After congressional offices were inundated with threats about the new TikTok bill, they are finally getting caller ID. 

Through the Administration Committee, the House is updating its system to allow offices to identify callers who are connected through the switchboard system. 

The House's administrative officer will now be able to pass on caller identification to U.S. Capitol Police when an office receives a threatening message. 

According to the memo, obtained by Axios, they will not be able to provide identification for callers who deliberately block their numbers, but Capitol Police will more easily be able to track down those blocked calls and investigate them. 

Phone lines rang off the hook twice within a week as House members moved to pass a bill that could ban TikTok if it is not divested from Chinese parent company ByteDance. 

Callers consisted of crying children, some clearly calling from classrooms, concerned parents and other users frantically trying to thwart the banning of their favorite social media platform.