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Article: COMMERCE COMMITTEE APPROVES PROTECTING CONSUMER PHONE RECORDS ACT
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 30, 2006
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The Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation Committee issued the following press release:
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today approved by voice vote S. 2389, the Protecting Consumer Phone Records Act, which prevents unscrupulous companies and individuals from fraudulently obtaining consumers' private phone records in a deceptive practice known as "pretexting."
Commerce Committee Members adopted a substitute amendment to the original bill, which was introduced by Senator George Allen (R-Va.) and is co-sponsored by Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), Co-Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), and Committee Members Conrad Burns (R-Mont.), David ...