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Will the Americans gain back the right to choose how to spend their money in 2009 Congress?
 December 2, 2008, 9:28 am (3 years ago)The Bush administration's last attack on the online gambling - the last minute "midnight drop" style publication of the rules in favor of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act - has drawn the battle lines for next year's Congress, as said in a report in the Birmingham News this week. And the industry's would-be arch opponent, Alabama Representative Spencer Bachus, seems to appreciate the outlook of wearisome any effort in the 2009 Congress to turn over or amend the legislation.
The issuing of the rules in the last days of the Bush government has been extensively condemned, and has been almost as contentious as the Act itself, issued in a late night session of Congress attached to a must-pass security bill that left most politicians unaware of its content.
The Act aims to forbid financial transactions with online gambling operators, putting the weight of enforcement on an objecting financial services industry critical of the insufficiency of accuracy in its designation of what forms an illegitimate gambling transaction. Interest carve-outs for Internet betting on state lotteries, horse-racing and fantasy sports have distracted the drafters' job, while officials with a conflicting outlook have increased a energetic defense of the right of Americans to decide how they use their disposal earnings.
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