House bill targets billions of unwanted robocalls

Published December 13, 2019 4:00am ET



Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on few issues these days, but there’s a near-universal hate of spam telephone calls.

The House of Representatives in early December voted 417-3 to pass the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act, a bipartisan bill that attempts to cut down on the tens of billions of unsolicited robocalls made to U.S. telephones and mobile phones every year.

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