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November 02, 2015
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Consumer Groups Support the HANGUP (Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone calls) Act
CFA joins other consumer groups in strongly supporting Senator Markey’s bill – the HANGUP (Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone calls) Act – to repeal the recent enactment of Section 301 in the budget bill, which will allow collectors of debt owed to or guaranteed by the United States to make robodialed and prerecorded calls and texts to cell phones without explicit consent.
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