Democratic Congressmembers John Conyers and John Dingell have asked the Justice Department and other agencies to investigate the Republican use of so-called robo-calls. Conyers and Dingell said the National Republican Campaign Committee has reportedly spent $600,000 to repeatedly send out pre-recorded phone calls that confuse voters and are designed to generate anger at democratic candidates. The Washington Post reported that one woman from Ohio, called the paper in tears yesterday, saying she could not keep her phone line open to hospice workers caring for her terminally ill mother because of nonstop political robo-calls.