I will admit, it's something I haven't much seen in legislation. I found it was a surprising inclusion in this bill, having worked through 68 pages, to find at the very end provisions that would effectively kill the do-not-call list and replace it with this legislation.
My own view, given the challenges and problems we've seen with the do-not-call list, is that this would actually be a better approach. Rather than facing the kinds of security issues we've seen around the do-not-call list, this would eliminate that by setting a stronger standard, so we don't have lists of six million numbers literally being floated around the world, with people getting all of these calls they don't want.
So the theory behind this is good. Now, the practice of it is rather awkward, because it says, on the one hand, that it's excluded, and then, as I think this committee heard on Tuesday, this is basically creating the prospect at some point in time in the future of pulling the plug on the DNCL and having this in its place. It's nice to know that it's in its place. If it were up to me, I would say pull the plug now and have this apply universally to both electronic communications and telemarketing.