H.R. 2046 Internet Gambling Exemption (x-post)

[Bilgefisher]

Frank Introduces Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007

Washington, DC - Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 that would create an exemption to the ban on online gambling for properly licensed operators, allowing Americans to lawfully bet online.
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Wookie, Aussie sorry for the x-post, but this is pretty big news in my opinion. Thought folks needed to know.

[ESKiMO-SiCKNE5S]

good work bilge - temporary sticky please.

[nerdking]

for those of you living on Oregon, here are the names and numbers of your State Representatives:

01 David Wu (West Portland) (202) 225-0855
02 Greg Walden (202) 225-6730
03 Earl Blumenauer (East Portland) (202) 225-4811
04 Peter A. DeFazio (202) 225-6416
05 Darlene Hooley (202) 225-5711

call your representative, tell them you vote (because I hope you do > ) and let's get this bill passed.

ps. if you do nothing else, at least call Rep. Frank's office at (202) 225-5931 and THANK HIM FOR PUTTING IN THE EFFORT FOR US.

[TehPokarKing]

Yeah this news is definitely very encouraging and with this issue a lot of calls, letters, effort, and pressure could help to move this bill.

This is an issue that, with all of the other things going on in Congress right now, is not likely to receive a lot of "big" press coverage until major action is taken on it. I think that could be to our advantage (allowing Congress to deliberate on the issue away from a big media microscope and without House members trying to score political points on the issue) but keep the constructive, respectful letters and calls coming, particularly if your representative is on The House Financial Services Committee. They're going to start taking testimony in June so I wouldn't expect any major action on the bill until later in the summer.

Let us gogogogo

[fretelöo]

gl guys. Next year, the german forum will probably be having rally threads like this... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[Bilgefisher]

The most positive outcome I see if this bill is passed. The murky water of online poker legality will be clear. Your average non forum browsing, ill informed, US poker player will have no doubt whether they can play legally or not. Right now this is not the case.

[OziBattler]

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good work bilge - temporary sticky please.

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I have no real objections to a sticky but it might be better to leave unstickied for any comments you guys have.

also, Im not totally up to speed on all this so i wont really know when all the info that needs to be said is said. eg contact details of congressmen for states other than Oregon

perhaps Wookie would be a better judge of when to sticky and unsticky...

[MrWookie]

Yeah, I'm going to leave this unsticked. Feel free to bump it, though.

[Bilgefisher]

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Yeah, I'm going to leave this unsticked. Feel free to bump it, though.

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This is fine. I have no problem bumping it, I think some stickies tend to get ignored anyway. We probably won't get any good info for a bit.

I did read in the legislation forum that Barney Frank needs co-sponsors for this bill. Basically that means get after your representative.

[Bilgefisher]

Just a bump for those who missed.

Barney Frank is going to need our help. The longer we wait the harder it will be to officially legalize online poker. Call your representatives or write letters. If you can't write well, plenty of others have posted their drafts.