A bill to make federal do-not-call listings permanent was introdu...
A bill to make federal do-not-call listings permanent was introduced formally Monday by Reps. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., and Chip Pickering, R-Miss. Doyle, vice chairman of the House Telecom Subcommittee, said “over 50 million phone numbers will be purged from…
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the Do Not Call registry” if Congress doesn’t act. Listings last five years, and many people who signed up when the registry debuted again may be inundated with unwanted calls, Doyle said. The Senate Commerce Committee in early August approved S-781, requiring the Federal Trade Commission to renew the registry, which expires in summer 2008. The FTC promised at the Senate markup of S-781 to run an education campaign encouraging people to reregister. A permanent extension “makes more sense” than requiring people to keep signing up, he said.