The following is the autoresponse you get (EVERY TIME you send a comment, thanks probably to some equally-clueless aide!) from Senator Murkowski's comment mailbox at commercialemail@murkowski.senate.gov:
Thank you for contacting me concerning unsolicited commercial email. The 105th session of Congress has adjourned without passing any news laws on this issue. Currently, no specific federal statute exists that regulates junk email.
Prior to adjournment, the Senate passed my legislation that would have required online marketers to identify themselves accurately and to honor consumer remove requests. The Senate language is contained within Title III of S. 1618.
The House of Representatives also passed legislation on unsolicited email. However, it only urged industry self-regulation and contained no new laws to control this practice. I feel that self-regulation has been a failure and that new laws are needed to control this practice. The House language is contained within Title II of H.R. 3888.
I will continue to work to control junk email. However, the fact that the House of Representatives has gone on record opposing any new laws while the Senate has chosen an opposite approach means that there is much to be worked out between the two bodies during the next session of Congress.
I regret that in the meantime there will be no federal solution to this problem. Since junk email is an issue of interstate commerce, any state law to address junk email may be held by federal courts to be unconstitutional. I will continue to work to see that junk email does not continue to burden Internet users and service providers.
Thank you again for contacting me.