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Congressmen trying to stop UIGEA from taking effect!! Please help.

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  1. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 7:54pm)

    Several congressional leaders are working to place a moratorium on UIGEA! You can support this effort by writing to Congress. PPA has an auto-letter at www.pokerplayersalliance.org/letter that takes less than 60 seconds to send! Please take a moment and support these efforts. Thanks!

    After you send your letter, please reply with "sent" to encourage the effort.
     
  2. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 7:54pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    Here's a new letter from Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Ron Paul (R-TX), Peter King (R-NY), and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) to the Treasury Dept (a similar one went to the Federal Reserve). The letters are at http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press...anke042108.pdf and http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press...lson042108.pdf:

    April 21, 2008

    The Honorable Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
    Secretary
    U.S. Department of the Treasury
    1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
    Washington, DC 20220

    Dear Mr. Secretary:

    As you know, on Wednesday, April 2, the Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic and International and Monetary Policy held a hearing entitled, “Proposed UIGEA Regulations: Burden Without Benefit?” to examine the regulations issued last year by your agency and the Federal Reserve on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). At that hearing, the testimony of your representatives and the industry made it clear that the regulations are unworkable. Subsequently, we introduced new legislation, H.R. 5767, which would prohibit their implementation.

    The regulations, like the underlying legislation, fail to define the term “unlawful internet gambling,” leaving it to each financial institution to reconcile conflicting state and federal laws, court decisions and inconsistent Department of Justice interpretations, when determining whether to process a transaction. Furthermore, some of the information needed to make this determination would likely be unavailable to banks, because customers or financial institutions in foreign jurisdictions will likely be unwilling or unable to provide it. At the hearing, representatives from your agency and the Federal Reserve admitted that there are substantial problems in crafting regulations to implement the UIGEA in a manner that does not have a substantial adverse effect on the efficiency of the nation’s payment system.

    Your agency and the Federal Reserve have been struggling to issue these regulations, but as the hearing made clear, the underlying statute makes your job extremely difficult, if not impossible. Given the many other priorities that are pending at your agencies, including the mortgage crisis, HOEPA, and UDAP rulewriting and many other issues, we believe it would be imprudent for you to devote additional agency resources to this Sisyphean task, especially as we intend to vigorously pursue legislation to prevent the implementation of these regulations.

    BARNEY FRANK
    Chairman
    Committee on Financial Services

    RON PAUL
    Ranking Member
    Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy

    LUIS V. GUTIERREZ
    Chairman
    Subcommittee on Domestic and International
    Monetary Policy

    PETER KING
    Member
    Committee on Financial Services
     
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  3. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 7:56pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    <span><span><span>Frank, Paul Introduce Legislation to Stop Implementation of Antigambling Regulations</span></span>

    Washington, DC—House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-MA) and senior Financial Services Committee member Ron Paul (R-TX) have introduced legislation to prohibit the federal government from issuing regulations called for in the called for in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The legislation, H.R. 5767, will forbid the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from proposing, prescribing, or implementing any regulation that requires the financial services industry to identify and block internet gambling transactions.

    “These regulations are impossible to implement without placing a significant burden on the payments system and financial institutions, and while I do disagree with the underlying objective of the Act, I believe that even those who agree with it ought to be concerned about the regulations’ impact,” said Rep. Frank.

    “The ban on Internet gambling infringes upon two freedoms that are important to many Americans: the ability to do with their money as they see fit, and the freedom from government interference with the Internet. The regulations and underlying bill also force financial institutions to act as law enforcement officers. This is another pernicious trend that has accelerated in the aftermath of the Patriot Act, the deputization of private businesses to perform intrusive enforcement and surveillance functions that the federal government is unwilling to perform on its own,” said Rep. Paul.

    Specifically, at issue is the fact that the regulations, like the underlying legislation, fail to define the term “unlawful internet gambling,” leaving it to each financial institution to reconcile conflicting state and federal laws, court decisions and inconsistent Department of Justice interpretation, when determining whether to process a transaction. Furthermore, some of the information needed to make this determination would likely be unavailable to banks, either because customers or financial institutions in foreign jurisdictions are unwilling or unable to provide it. At the hearing, the regulators themselves admitted that there are substantial problems in crafting regulations to implement the UIGEA that does not have a substantial adverse effect on the efficiency of the nation’s payment system.

    Chairman Frank and Congressman Paul opposed the UIGEA, and the two have been working on legislation, H.R. 2046 that would license and regulate online gaming. However, it was clear at the hearing that the regulations are unworkable for the financial services industry, and this bill would, therefore prohibit their implementation.

    On Wednesday, April 2, the DIMP Subcommittee held a hearing “Proposed UIGEA Regulations: Burden Without Benefit?” to examine the regulations issued last year by the Federal Reserve and Treasury on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which garnered more than 200 comment letters.</span>
     
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  4. blackstar74 blackstar74 is offline

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 9:03pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    I sent mine.
  5. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 9:24pm) in reply to blackstar74

     
    Originally Posted by blackstar74 View Post


    I sent mine.

    Thanks! I appreciate your standing up for our rights.

    Hopefully we'll see many more "sent" replies.
     
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:08pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    Sent!
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:26pm) in reply to Head77

    sent
     
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:35pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:45pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    Sent....clicking link above didn't work for me (some ghey pocketfives error...what else is new) but typing in the address worked fine.
  10. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:51pm) in reply to Be_Right

     
    Originally Posted by Be_Right View Post


    Sent....clicking link above didn't work for me (some ghey pocketfives error...what else is new) but typing in the address worked fine.

    Thanks for sending it and for pointing out the problem. I just edited the post and it's working fine now.
     
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 10:58pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent. Great work in Poker Legislation BTW
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:10pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sentsky
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:13pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    Sent
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:19pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sentsies
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:20pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent!
  16. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:21pm) in reply to Tak3Ov3r

     
    Originally Posted by Tak3Ov3r View Post


    sent. Great work in Poker Legislation BTW

    Thanks! I'm glad you're getting value from the efforts there.
     
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  17. TheEngineer TheEngineer is offline Rich Muny - PPA Board VP

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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:29pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    Great job with all the "sends" so far. Thanks!

    Also, PPA now has over one million members. Politico has a nice article about it, at www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9746.html . You can be assured these efforts are generating attention and results.
     
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:32pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    I can't believe Barney called him a sisy! ; )

    sent
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:39pm) in reply to Cabo

     
    Originally Posted by Cabo View Post


    I can't believe Barney called him a sisy! ; )

    sent

    Good one! Hehe.

    Thanks for sending it.
     
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:47pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent
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    Apr 21st, 2008 (4/21/2008 11:50pm) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent
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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 12:39am) in reply to TheEngineer

    sent.
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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 12:39am) in reply to TheEngineer

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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 12:48am) in reply to TheEngineer

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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 12:48am) in reply to TheEngineer

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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 4:36am) in reply to TheEngineer

    Sent!

    Thanks Engineer for doing so much for our cause. The PPA has made a lot of progress and it is good to see some light at the end of the tunnel. We couldn't do it without people like you and everyone who sends thier letters and supports these actions. Thanks to all p5er's supporting this.
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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 6:46am) in reply to TheEngineer

    ..could those politicians let people play poker already..ITS THEIR MONEY AND LIFE-nobody gets hurt and its a fun activity btw. Those lameasses forget its still DEMOCRACY ..mind ur own buisness..I hate those idiots gettin off on tellin people how they are supposed 2 live
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    Apr 22nd, 2008 (4/22/2008 7:31am) in reply to TheEngineer

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