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PHONE SOLICITATION CURB GAINS IN SENATE

WASHINGTON-The Senate yesterday approved a bill that will outlaw computer phone solicitations unless consumers said they wanted to receive the calls.

The legislation was passed on a voice vote without opposition and now goes to the House.

"It is time we liberated Americans from obnoxious telephone calls," said Sen. Larry Pressler, R-S.D., who sponsored the bill. "Consumers are fed up with the nuisance of unwanted telemarketing calls to their homes day and night."

The legislation also is designed to end other junk telephone calls.

Telephone solicitations to residential phone customers who choose not to receive the calls.

Use of automatic dialing machines or computer voice calls to emergency lines, cellular phones or pagers.

Unsolicited faxes to junk machines.