Senate Commerce Postpones Markup of Foreign Robocall Elimination Act
The Senate Commerce Committee postponed a planned markup session Wednesday (see 2510020046) that would have included a vote on the Foreign Robocall Elimination Act (S-2666), a panel spokesperson said. The committee plans “shortly” to reschedule the meeting, which would have immediately preceded a hearing on Biden administration interactions with social media companies. Democrats used that hearing as a forum to again criticize FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for his mid-September threats against ABC and parent Disney before the network temporarily pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! from the air (see 2510080049).
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S-2666 would direct the FCC to create a public-private task force to recommend new methods “to combat unlawful robocalls made into” the U.S. from outside the country. The task force would also examine whether creating a robocall-focused office within DOJ would improve the department’s ability to conduct enforcement against unlawful robocalls.