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  Legislative History
In the absence of a body of time-tested appellate decisions, legislative history has proven to be a key in TCPA litigation.  Nearly every one of the pivotal TCPA decisions has relied in part on legislative history.

While Westlaw provides full text searching of legislative history, it does not have the text of some critical documents.  Notably missing is the hearing testimony on the TCPA's precursor bills in 1989.  This hearing testimony is over 120 pages long, and touches on many aspects of telemarketing that are not addressed in later hearings or in the congressional record.  Only on TCPALaw.com has the text of this document been compiled into our comprehensive text search engine, along with all the committee reports on the TCPA (and its related bills that other searches miss) along with congressional record text.

We have also obtained a number of other critical documents cited in the legislative history, such as the Field Research Report, and the text of the legislative history is linked to these other documents where possible.

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