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Claire McCaskill: “The idea was simple: voluntarily register your phone number on a centralized list, and telemarketers would be prohibited…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
The idea was simple: voluntarily register your phone number on a centralized list, and telemarketers would be prohibited by law from calling you.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill explains the purpose of the National Do Not Call Registry.

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