Lawmakers have launched a bipartisan broadside against robocalls.
Meanwhile, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, D-N.J., has introduced a bill that would close a legal loophole robocallers exploit, while requiring the telecom companies to provide blocking services against call"spoofers" free of charge."I hear from my constituents in New Jersey all the time about how fed up they are with robocalls," Pallone said.
Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., said the robocalls issue"has gotten so bad that you can watch videos of people getting robocalls while they’re in the middle of making a video complaining about robocalls." The scam artists, who try to get people to send money to fraudulent causes,"really are the people that we're going after," Thune said.
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