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Barney Sill Making The Online Gambling Headlines
 April 20, 2007, 2:26 pm (4 years ago)The congressman Barney Frank and his proposal to challenge the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act continue to make the headlines this week based solely on an interview that he gave to the well respected Las Vega Review Journal.
Barney Frank, the congressman, actually said that the resistance that is actually growing against the ban on financial transactions with online gambling sites that was enacted last year after being attached to the unrelated and out of topic Safe Ports Act.
The Las Vegas Review Journal reported that Frank said “I think a lot of members of Congress voted for that without having given it a lot of attention. And I think that there is growing opposition to it. I think that this may be a case where, after the fact of having voted for it, people don’t like it and they reconsider”.
Frank is actually the new chairman of the House Financial Services Committee stated that he plans to actually introduce his repeal proposal next week or the week after that.
The Journal also reports that Democrat Shelley Berkley and also the Republican Jon Porter who are both of Nevada also plan to unveil legislation within a similar timeframe, but calling for a study of the internet gambling by the National Academy of Sciences. Frank said that he may support the Nevadans bill, but “I want to go beyond the study”.
Frank said when explaining his objections to the UIGEA “Because I like to tell the truth. It has no valid public purpose in my judgment. It intrudes in peoples private lives. One argument for it was that this activity adds nothing to the GDP. That’s a chilling principle that if something doesn’t add to the GDP we can ban it. That’s a kind of corporatism that is very troubling to me”.
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