[...] sports betting. The NFL even came out against the Barney Frank bill, when the bill expressly excluded sports betting, because the leagues feared this might someday lead to legalization. Unless New Jersey wins its fight in court to get sports betting, there is no chance it will be made legal. So poker advocates have to have nothing to do with it. The political calculations for casino betting are [...]

[...] ation that currently exists in the United States. Barney Frank has authored legislation to bring the game you love back to the U.S. Jim McDermott has even introduced legislation that outlines how the projected $40 billion of internet gambling revenue could be allocated over the next ten years. Also, please join the Poker Players Alliance, the major lobbying group for the online poker industry. Che [...]

[...] PERSMALL.COM: With the attention received by Rep. Barney Frank's introduction of his Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act and more recently, Rep. Jim McDermott's letter to congress asking for support of that bill, it is beginning to look like a larger segment of those that make our laws have become more willing to have an open mind on the internet gambling issue. Those that are respons [...]

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[...] forcement Act, recently introduced by Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), assigns FinCEN the responsibility to protect consumers and the financial system from the risk of Internet gambling abuses through the introduction of a robust licensing regime. "It is clear that FinCEN is already regulating financial transactions involving land-based casinos in the United States," said Jeffrey San [...]

[...] of worms by regulating portions of the internet. Barney Frank (D-Ma) is the Chairman of the House Financial Services said, "The financial institutions are in the position of being told not process bets, but it's not clear what is legal and what is illegal, He said financial institutions had been given "a job that is undoable." Casino City Times called today's hearing a blow to bot [...]

[...] cans, led by Democrat from Massachusetts Chairman Barney Frank and Republican Ron Paul of Texas sent a strong letter to the Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke with some very strong wording concerning enforcing the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act . According to TheHill.com, the letter states that the Committee has warned U.S. treasury and Federa [...]

[...] rvice his company offers its customers." Barney Frank who last year introduced H.R. 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 which would allow US residents to legally bet online by way of an exemption to properly licensed operators was also critical of the UIGEA once again. Frank called the bill "a bizarre piece of legislation" The news has been more p [...]