ClickZ reports that the Direct Marketing Association is lobbying Congress to give more enforcement funding to the Federal Trade Commission to help uphold the Can-Spam Act. Enforcement has been less than zealous, as the vast majority of Can-Spam charges have come up only in connection to other investigations, as add-on, kitchen sink charges typically thrown on top of people already charged with more serious fraud crimes. If flaccid enforcement emboldens spammers to redouble spam growth rates, organizations like the DMA may have a harder time fending off more and more limiting legislation. One method of funding the FTC put forward by the DMA would be allowing the FTC to keep penalties it levies against offenders.