Our proposal is that in this day and age, where more and more companies are dealing in electronic means, and in fact that's being encouraged because it obviously lowers costs both to the companies concerned and the consumer, we should try to have a balance between the need to avoid malicious spam and allowing companies to continue to have legitimate business activities electronically. We think allowing an initial contact message to prospective customers, with suitable safeguards, as we've indicated, which would be consistent with the intent and principles in the bill, would effect that balance that we're discussing.
On September 30th, 2009. See this statement in context.