Ed Markey actually said...

"So, Attorney General, will these two changes in the budget and transportation laws on robocalls and robotext provisions make it harder for consumers to protect themselves from fraudulent tax and debt ..."

"This provision, coupled with the TCPA carve-out in the budget deal, will open the floodgates to private debt collectors robocalling and robotexting millions of Americans."

"I authored this law in 1991--I am the author of it--it was because there was an epidemic of calls that were going into people's homes."

"Yes. So, they become electronic kind of Luca Brasis, you know, as debt collectors, which is bothering you all night long."