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Old 11-13-2007, 12:42 AM
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Default Re: Senators For and Against Online Poker (first cut)

I wish I knew who the other 14 senators were.


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Jon Kyl and Senator Sam Brownback Gain 16 Signatures on Their Letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist Urging Him to Bring to the Senate Floor the "Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act," H.R. 4411 Passed Last Week by U.S. House of Representatives by Margin of 317-93
Senators Jon Kyl, (R-AZ) and Sam Brownback, (R-KS), gathered the signatures of 14 other Senators on a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-TN), urging Senate consideration of the "Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act," H. R. 4411, to thwart Internet gambling, which passed overwhelmingly in the United States House of Representatives last week by a margin of 317-93 in another “American Values Agenda” vote. In their letter they write, "Internet gambling's characteristics are unique: online players can gamble 24 hours a day from home; children may play without sufficient age verification; and betting with a credit card can undercut a player's perception of the value of cash, leading to possible addiction and, in turn, to bankruptcy, crime and suicide. Professor John Kindt of the University of Illinois put it best when he called Internet gambling the 'crack cocaine of gambling .... There are no needle marks. There's no alcohol on the breath. You click the mouse and lose your house."..."
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