Posted on 09/30/2006 9:43:50 AM PDT by Alterboy1964
Congress approves Internet gambling ban bill
By Peter Kaplan Reuters Saturday, September 30, 2006; 12:52 AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most forms of Internet gambling would be banned under a bill that received final U.S. congressional approval early Saturday.
The House of Representatives and Senate approved the measure and sent it to President George W. Bush to sign into law.
The bill, a compromise between earlier versions passed by the two chambers, would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites.
Democrats had accused Republicans of pushing the bill to placate its conservative base, particularly the religious right, before the November 7 congressional elections.
"It's been over 10 years in the making. The enforcement provisions provided by this bill will go a long way to stop these illegal online operations," said Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican and a chief sponsor of the measure.
Negotiators from the Republican-led House and Senate reached a deal on the legislation Friday and attached it to unrelated legislation to bolster port security, which the Congress approved.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican and potential 2008 presidential candidate, recently appeared at a hearing in Iowa -- the state that holds the first presidential nominating contest for the 2008 election -- to listen to concerns about Internet gambling.
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IBTZ????
So that means the FCC will stop the commercials?
Because you can't go to a brick and mortar casino and play for a couple of hours on $2.
Anyone that says they can is a liar.
"Good riddance"
Your neighborhood bookie thanks you..
You're right. What am I missing here? Tunica is sometimes listed as Tenn. and sometimes as Miss. Memphis needs Tunica gambling?
Absolutely positive.
I don't know what idiot website or search engine listed Tunica and Robinsonville as being Tennessee, but I wouldn't use it anymore.
Well said. By banning the transacations, the gubmint makes it easier for criminal activity to flourish.
Bon appetit!
If the President hasn't signed this yet...he shouldn't
Probably Biblical:
Thou shalt not gambleth on thine Internet. If thou must gambleth, thou mustest do so at thinest's local Native American casino-eth.
LMAO
We need to start treating them like the rest of us.
stupid
ping
Isn't this the logical outcome of that WTO decision against the US for locking out foreign-based Internet gambling? IIRC, we lost and the penalty under consideration if we didn't open up to the world was some little island would get the right to ignore intellectual property rights and start cranking out CD's, DVD's, software, you name it - a huge penalty. Rather than open up to international gambling, the only other recourse was to shut it down. The loss of IP rights would be an economy killer.
Someone has to create those fancy websites, have encryption, and make sure the websites are hacker-proof.
Unless websites and hosting are created by a magic wand, there has to be somebody doing it.
[If Congress could TAX these Overseas based sights, they'd be giving them grants to ENCOURAGE the business!]
If the websites are overseas, it is very possible (if not probable) that some of these sites are funding terrorism and the like. Fueling an underground organized crime black market economy through anonymous gambling websites seems a little stupid. Perhaps this is the impetus for the legislation.
It is to bad congress doesn't protect our manufacturing industries like they are protecting our home grown gambling industry.
I could get half a dozen guys to run a website. A casino hotel employs hundreds.
"websites that are preying on the most vulnerable members of our society" you are of course totally off-base. poker websites dont prey on people, weak people who cant control themselves lose money to poker websites. and why you joined today to post about this I'll never care, but republicans are supremely retarded for backing this.
I just heard this on Fox. Fisk is the one in charge of this. And it's the Republican's who are doing this. I just can't believe it. Can't trust any of those pigs.
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