A new bill is working its way through Congress that sounds a lot better than it is. The “Junk Fax Protection Act of 2004” is a great-sounding name, right? You’d think the act would help prevent companies from sending you expensive, annoying junk faxes at your home or business. But, in reality, the law will make it legal to send you these junk faxes. The National Association of Realtors is leading the charge because they want to send you all the faxes they can. But other companies are not happy about the new law. One of the groups is the National Federation of Independent Business, which sells insurance services. The organization was sued for sending people junk faxes and lost in court, so now it has to pay a fine. Meanwhile, other companies are going to get away with sending these faxes with no penalty or punishment. We’ll see how this pans out, but it does not look good for businesses that receive faxes.