Fantasy sports hearing likely, GOP chairman says

The Hill ^ | September 17, 2015 | David McCabe

[C19fan]

A House Republican chairman said on Thursday that he is likely to call a hearing on the new fantasy sports sites that critics say are skirting gambling laws.

"My sense is that we will do a hearing," said Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "There’s a lot of things on our front burner right now, but I think this is an issue that we ought to take a look at.”

[C19fan]

The Middle East is burning, the economy sucks, yet the GOP Nanny Staters want to spend time on fantasy sports. I wonder if Adelson worried about people gambling on fantasy sports instead of in LV gave Upton a call. The "Baptists-Bootlegger" coalition strikes away to take away freedom.

[Arm_Bears]

Glad all of the really serious problems have been solved.

/s

What a bunch of friggin’ morons.

And they expect us to take them seriously.

[Afterguard]

Precisely. Beat me to it by four minutes.

Damn fools.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Fred Upton....the same ahole who banned the traditional light bulb.

[BerniesFriend]

Please make it stop!!!

[C. Edmund Wright]

If this is hurting his casino business, why doesn’t Adelson GET IN on the fantasy sports stuff instead of trying to stop it? He certainly has millions lying around with which to launch his own Fan Duel type site.

[Rinnwald]

...skirting gambling laws...

What that always means is that they are following gambling laws.

Like when you "skirt traffic laws" by going the speed limit.

[Alberta's Child]

You are absolutely correct on the Adelson angle, and dead wrong on the "nanny-state" angle.

This is nothing to so with morality, and everything to do with protecting major interests in the casino industry.

[Wolfie]

If is gambling, and ingeniously legal. When sports books are legalized nationwide, Fantasy gambling will all but disappear.

[LRoggy]

If he’s so concerned about this then let him call for a ban on lotteries first . . . at least these sites require you do some homework.

[nathanbedford]

Reacting with limitless courage, the Congress of the United States moves swiftly in the deflate gate non-scandal to protect gamblers on football games. Now Congress moves to protect establishment gambling companies from Internet gamblers, no doubt who bet on football games.

There is no end to the good Congress can do.

[Liberty Valance]

LOL! Great post.

[Don Corleone]

I'd be willing to bet (?) that one of the "Families" is controlling all these.

D.C.

[jospehm20]

Stupid morons. These idiot probably do not even realize how petty this makes them look.

[gusty]

I would not say they are skirting federal gambling laws, I would just state that they are violating them. Fantasy sports has been classified as games of skill. Where one selects a team of players and competes against others for prizes. The skill comes from being the best evaluator of talent, thus your team wins. However, these fantasy games are based on full seasons, not one day. For example, you pick David Ortiz over Alex Rodriquez, and over the year one performs better than the other, it is a reflection of ones skill as an analyst. If you pick Arod over David Ortiz for what they will do on Thursday Aug 23, than you have entered the world of gambling. There is no skill involved, it is pure game of chance. These fantasy game companies are engaging in the later, not the former. These companies are bookmaking operations masquerading as fantasy sports. The only way these companies can come into compliance would be by dropping the day by day play, and just use full season results.

[piytar]

The Party of Stupid.

[Captainpaintball]

This piece of shit, fred Upton, REFUSES to protect the electrical grid from sabotage or EMP, but he has time to interfere in fantasy football.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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Planned Parenthood Senate/House hearings with ALL videos shown to America ?

Not convenient ...

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[nascarnation]

Obviously these outfits failed to apply enough “grease” to the political process....

[lodi90]

The GOP held a hearing on youth soccer last week.