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Looks like Goodlatte is getting his way

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  1. MjrPayne MjrPayne is offline

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    May 27th, 2006 (5/27/2006 7:00pm)

    <H2>House Judiciary Committee Approves Onling Gambling Bill</H2><SPAN class=smDate>May 25 2006, 11:34 PM</SPAN>
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    On May 25th 2006 the House Judiciary Committee approved legislation that would not only make clear the legality of online gambling, but would also tighten the restrictions on it. Now that the bill has passed the Judiciary Committee it will move to the full House of Representatives.

    The committee voted 25-11 to approve the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act sponsored by Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican, and prepared to support a second measure, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, sponsored by Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican.

    ``I oppose gambling because I think it causes many, many problems in our society,'' Goodlatte said at today's committee meeting. <commentarty>Are these problems produced as bad as legal items that have shown to produce quite a bit of damage. Is gambling as dangerous as driving drunk? What about just driving in general? Is gambling more harmful than smoking? Obviously smoking and gambling, for instance, are not comparable on a physical level, but if one is trying to ban certain actions because they are harmful or for moralities sake, and want to be taken seriously, there are plenty of legal items that are as dangerous and probably cause more harm in people's lives than gambling. In fact, it would probably be very easy to prove that 'addiction' is the problem and not the actual 'act' or product. Unfortunately, in the U.S., it is the author's contention that wiping out addiction in America would be the downfall of many businesses. </end commentary>

    The Bush administration Justice Department supports the proposed legislation. Online gambling's legal status in the U.S. is unclear. The Justice Department interprets a 1961 law against using telephone lines to place interstate bets as banning online gambling.

    The Goodlatte measure would force U.S. financial institutions to cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities in shutting down illegal gambling sites based outside the U.S. The measure exempts horse racing, fantasy-sports betting and state lotteries in the U.S.

    Leach's measure would make it unlawful for credit-card companies to collect payments for transactions with online-gaming sites.

    The anti-gambling legislation is likely to pass the full House where some Republican lawmakers are uneasy about the damage done by former lobbyist Jack Abramoff's guilty plea on corruption charges. Abramoff helped block similar legislation in the past</SPAN>
  2. TheJacob TheJacob is offline

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    May 27th, 2006 (5/27/2006 7:07pm) in reply to MjrPayne

    Poker would be okay if was more like the lottery....aka everyone loses and .0000001% of the proceeds go to education!

    P.S.: Its almost laughable that the name of the act is "<span>The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act".
    How'd that last prohibition act work out?

    Oh yeah and shouldn't this be a state issue anyway?

    G G Federal Government

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  3. shighley3205 shighley3205 is offline

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    May 27th, 2006 (5/27/2006 7:21pm) in reply to MjrPayne

    yea...also this bill will pass the house on june 12
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