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 Federal  Communications  Commission  FCC  04-  52 
 STATEMENT  OF  COMMISSIONER  MICHAEL  J.  COPPS 


 RE:  Rules  and  Regulation  Implementing  the  Controlling  the  Assault  of  Non-  Solicited  Pornography  and  Marketing  Act  of  2003;  Rules  and  Regulations  Implementing 
 the  Telephone  Consumer  Protection  Act  of  1991  (NPRM). 
 Congress  has  given  us  an  aggressive  schedule  according  to  which  we  must  adopt  rules  implementing  the  CAN-  SPAM  act  by  the  end  of  September.  So  I’m  eager  to  get  the 
 process  started,  and  am  glad  we  are  doing  so  this  morning  with  this  NPRM. 
 To  make  this  happen,  we  will  have  to  be  just  as  aggressive  as  Congress  was  in  giving  us  this  charge.  There  are  tough  definitional  decisions  to  be  made  here  and  a 
 complicated  web  of  statutes  to  integrate.  So  we  need  a  good,  full  record  and  a  really  rapid  turn-  around  to  get  the  job  done.  But  the  reward  will  be  consumers  empowered  to 
 better  control  what  they  receive  and  what  they  pay  for.  So  thanks  to  the  Bureaus  for  bringing  the  item  to  us  and  I  look  forward  to  seeing  a  final  item  before  the  270  days 
 elapse.  It  may  require  a  long  summer  night  or  two! 
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