House Committee to Hold Internet Gambling Hearing 6/8

[Jestocost]

This just in…

The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing entitled "Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated to Protect Consumers and the Payments System?" at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2007, in room 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses will be by invitation only.

No more details at this time. Stay tuned.

[TheEngineer]

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This just in…

The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services will hold a hearing entitled "Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated to Protect Consumers and the Payments System?" at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2007, in room 2128 Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses will be by invitation only.

No more details at this time. Stay tuned.

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Thanks for the heads-up.

Everyone, PLEASE email, snail mail (email it as well so it's there in time) fax or call your congressman over the next few days. Our opponents definitely will.

[Jestocost]

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Thanks for the heads-up.

Everyone, PLEASE email, snail mail (email it as well so it's there in time) fax or call your congressman over the next few days. Our opponents definitely will.

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Many of them will be at home over this weekend, so stalking them while they're out kissing babies probably will work too. Shake their hand and give them a well-reasoned argument.

[MiltonFriedman]

No witness list publicly available until Monday.

[BluffTHIS!]

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Who wants to give an O/U on the percentage of the list comprised of "I clicked my mouse and lost my house" sob stories?

[oldbookguy]

lets hope you are corect and EVERYONE Writes someone or calls someone on the list on FSC Committee members.

The ansewr is YES, it is already being done with the 'LEGAL' wagering on MSN, YAHOO, AOL and others, no reason Poker cannot as well, the rules and procedures are already in place.

MAKE THIS POINT!!!!!

Also, I do not see the hearing listed yet, but if it is to be on the 8th, it can be watched live via web cam @

http://financialservices.house.gov/hearings_all.shtml

Click web cam.

obg

[Jack Bando]

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No witness list publicly available until Monday.

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Who wants to give an O/U on the percentage of the list comprised of "I clicked my mouse and lost my house" sob stories?

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Since this is Frank's group, isn't he the one doing the inviting? If so,I'm taking the under.

[Karak567]

This is a no-lose-situation for us, right?

[Jack Bando]

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This is a no-lose-situation for us, right?

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Depends on how much say Frank has in this. I don't know how these hearing work, but if he has a lot of sway on this hearing, this is very good.

[Jestocost]

Here's the witness list so far for this week's hearing:

<ul type="square">Howard Lederer, Professional Poker Player and Poker Industry Software Consultant
Radley Balko, Senior Editor, Reason Magazine
Jon Prideaux, Chief Executive, Asterion Payments
Gerald Kitchen, Chief Executive Officer, SecureTrading Ltd
Pastor Greg Hogan[/list]
Lederer's obviously friendly. Reason is a Libertarian site, which should be friendly on the personal freedom side. The other two guys are payments systems types who I hope will say that the systems can be made secure. Prideaux is a former Visa UK exec, but Asterion must be a start up. I'm guessing the Pastor isn't on our side

You can keep up with developments here:
Can Internet Gambling Be Effectively Regulated to Protect Consumers and the Payments System?