The "Mobile Informational Call Act" is an amendment to the Communications Act of 1934 and will allow political organizations, committees, and action groups to contact you on your mobile phone. The new bill, if passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by the President, would allow political organizations to use automated dialers and robocall-systems to dial your cell phone and hand you off to a live person or play automated messages asking you to contribute to political campaigns or take surveys.
The result, should the bill pass and become law, is that you'll be able to opt-out of specific campaigns and group calling lists, but political organizations that get your number through petitions, calling lists, or affiliated organizations will be able to call your mobile phone whenever they choose.
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As always, the best thing to do is contact your congressional representatives and let them know that you oppose the bill and would like them to oppose the bill as well. The National Political Do Not Contact Registry (NPDNC) has a petition that you can sign to make your opposition to the bill known to your specific representatives.
More, at the links.
If they write the mobile do not call list rules like those for land lines they be useless for stopping political calls. IIRC they have 90 days to do all the strenuous processing required to update one field. Political robocalls won’t even start until they’re in the window. And justbec
I didn’t realise I had started the next sentence. I hate typing on the android pad.
I think I was going to say something about how easy it is to get “outside” groups to act at arms length and they can come and go, and every one of them gets at least one free shot at annoying you.
If it wasn’t a bill that directly affected politicians I’d say don’t worry about it, it just got referred to committee, there are only 12 weeks until the end of the year, under the GOP they only work 3 days per week and one third of that 12 weeks will be holidays. 24 days to pass committee, get scheduled for a floor vote, go to the Senate, and do it all over again….Normal bills that aren’t introduced until October usually just don’t pass. They’re only brought up to 1)build support or 2)enable you to say you voted against it.
They’ve got until next Aug. the sneak it though, but there’s no harm in contacting any reps you know on E&C.