Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole

New submitter bearded_yak writes: Last week, it was reported here that a loophole for debt collection robocalls had found its way into the budget bill. In the end, the loophole survived. Now, several senators want to remove it with Senator Ed Markey's "Help Americans Never Get Unwanted Phone calls" (HANGUP) Act. Meanwhile, according to an article at Consumerist, "the Federal Communications Commission has nine months to craft rules dictating the conditions under which the government would be allowed to make these robocalls", so perhaps this loophole will meet its end before that time.

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Investigating "a loophole for debt collection robocalls had found its way into the budget bill":

I can narrow this down to having been introduced by the House. Commit 2015-10-28 pushed by House shows:

https://www.govtrack.us/congre...

Previous 2015-05-22 revision committed by Senate

https://www.govtrack.us/congre...

Diff places blame on house.

Perhaps an improvement would be

"The United States House of Representatives added a loophole for debt collection robocalls into the budget bill":

This is the limit of my journalism abilities here, but just hoping to make some improvement.

I would glad pay money for Slashdot if somehow the journalism could be improved.