Eshoo, Foxx Weigh In on Do Not Call Registry
Multiple House lawmakers focused on the Do Not Call list this week. House Communications Subcommittee ranking member Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., wants the FTC to fight violations of the Do Not Call list. “Nearly every day I hear from constituents who…
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are frustrated by the constant interruption of telemarketers,” Eshoo told the FTC in a letter sent Wednesday. “Despite more than 100 enforcement actions taken against companies and telemarketers for ‘Do Not Call’ violations by the FTC’s own admission, the number of consumer complaints for unsolicited telephone calls has doubled since 2010.” The Do Not Call registry “is not working as it was intended,” Eshoo said. She invited FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez to Silicon Valley for a summit on related technologies. Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., meanwhile, introduced HR-827 “to revise the regulations regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry,” its title said. Its co-sponsor is Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., and it was referred to the Commerce Committee. Foxx is calling the bill the Robo Calls Off Phones (COP) Act. “Though citizens are able to stop receiving telemarketing calls, politicians made sure to exempt political robocalls from the power of the Do Not Call Registry,” Foxx said in a statement. “Removing that exemption through the Robo COP Act is a matter of fairness.”