As soon as we heard that a provision buried deep in the new federal budget would authorize robocalls to cell hones, we jumped on it. People like you quickly sent tens of thousands of messages to the House as lawmakers were debating the bill.
Your message was clear: this is a terrible idea!
But this bad provision still got pushed through Congress in a rush to avoid a government shutdown. Thankfully, that's not the end of it! A handful of Senators have already launched legislation -- the HANG UP Act -- to repeal this before it even takes effect.
Tell your Senators to cosponsor, and all lawmakers to support, the HANG UP Act!
Today, it is still against the law to robocall cell phones in most circumstances, yet we get these unwanted and exasperating calls anyway. Your stories are pouring in describing debt collector robocalls related to debts you
don't owe and debtors you don't know. This problem could get a lot worse unless the HANG UP Act quickly passes.
Ten Senators -- Senators McCaskill, Wyden, Menendez, Blumenthal, Leahy, Warren, Sanders, Franken, Klobuchar, and Baldwin -- are already signed on as original cosponsors and they need support.
Tell your Senators to cosponsor the HANG UP Act and say "No" to robocalls to cell phones!
After you take action, check out the rest of our work to pressure the major phone companies to give us all free, effective robocall blocking.
No matter what happens in Congress, we are going to need better tools to block robocalls ourselves. We've already signed half a million people on to our petition to the phone companies. Our campaign – EndRobocalls.org -- has put
this problem back into the spotlight, so we hope you will share it with friends and family.
Thanks for everything you do!
Sincerely,
Tim Marvin, EndRobocalls.org
A project of Consumers Union
Policy and Action from Consumer Reports
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