Re: Don\'t celebrate so soon ..A Senator running for President is involved
1.The U.S. Treasury Department is dragging its feet in writing regulations to accompany a law designed to stop the use of credit cards to pay for Internet gambling.
2."The gambling forces seem to have some friends in those departments that might have been helping write some of those regulations," he said. “It’s almost setting up a fourth branch of government – a bureaucracy branch – that decides what laws they want to enforce and what laws they want to basically rewrite.”
3.Jon Kyl tried to force a commitment from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the enforcement of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Act (UIGEA) in hearings about the "Firing of US Attorneys” scandal.
4.Tom McClusky of the Family Research Council claimed without specifying the detail that "intense pressure" had been brought to bear via the Treasury Department to water down the restrictions.
5."The gambling forces seem to have some friends in those departments that might have been helping write some of those regulations
It's better than a poke in the eye!
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