Say Good Bye to Internet Gambling
September 29th, 2006
Friday Night, September 29th, 2006, may quietly go down as the day Internet Gambling died in the United States.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress was pushing on Friday to finish legislation that would boost security at U.S. ports, but at the last minute lawmakers added provisions to prohibit Internet gambling.
Rushing to finish their work by the weekend to go home and campaign for elections in which control of Congress is at stake, lawmakers were linking up unrelated measures in an effort to get them approved.
The House passed an Internet gambling ban earlier this summer, but the bill had difficulty moving in the Senate. However it was a priority of Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist of Tennessee, and attaching it to the popular port security bill appeared aimed at insuring its passage.
Votes were expected by midnight Friday in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Sad indeed. Very sad.
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1. Common Gambler | October 24th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Banning online gambling in such a way is a mistake, and one that the US govenment will have to pay for.
It’ll take some time, but eventually the government will understand that this law must be removed and gambling must be legalized.
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