He began his political career as a telephone solicitor for the Republican National Committee in 1985.

Ms. Wiley is one of those people America loves to hate: a telephone solicitor.

People have become accustomed to dinner-hour interruptions by telephone solicitors.

Angela Elder remembers telling one telephone solicitor she already had a water purifier.

In addition to his morning suit, he wore a microphone set like telephone solicitors did.

The laws generally require telephone solicitors to avoid calling consumers who list their objections to such calls on a registry.

"Most telephone solicitors call right in the middle of the dinner hour," Wesley said.

Congress estimates that more than 300,000 telephone solicitors call more than 18 million Americans every day.

Tell me she's proud and content to be married to a telephone solicitor.

"What'd you do before you became a telephone solicitor?"