On June 15, members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the FCC Chairman and FTC Chairwoman urging updates to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA") rules that protect Americans from unwanted sales calls. According to the letter, when the TCPA was enacted in 1991, the overall wireless penetration rate was 2.9 percent, whereas now 44 percent of American homes have only wireless phones.

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