Fandt dette på et andet poker forum og synes lige jeg ville dele :). Måske er der alligevel lidt håb forude?
The office of US Congressman Barney Frank, who is chairman of the House financial services committee, has confirmed that he is currently working on legislation to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
The news item appeared this afternoon on the Financial Times website and has been confirmed to eGaming Review by Frank’s press department. The details of how any repeal would take action have not been worked out and no timeframe was given.
Frank is quoted as describing last autumn’s Act as one of the “stupidest laws” ever passed and adds: “I am working on legislation to cut back on this internet gambling thing… I think it’s preposterous”.
While rumours of Barney Frank’s support for a repeal of the Act had been circulating around the egaming industry in the past few weeks, Frank himself had not confirmed or commented on them. Shares in PartyGaming, 888 and Sportingbet were all up this afternoon.
The FT says the mid-term Democratic victory in the US Congress brought some hope to the online gaming sector and John Conyers, chairman of the House judiciary committee, is also considered sympathetic to the industry.
But while Frank and Conyers are “powerful potential allies, it is far from clear that the lawmakers would have enough support to pass any meaningful legislation” because it is not clear “whether the votes would be there for a regulatory bill”.
The FT adds that the US treasury is currently drafting the rules to implement the Act but that the deadline for presenting them has been missed and is now expected in April or May.
Håb for de amerikanske fisk? :D!
her var også lige en anden:
Several media outlets are reporting that Senator Barney Frank could be working on a bill that would repeal the UIGEA and also that charges may be dropped against Neteller directors John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence. Below is some key quotes from a few media reports today.
March 14 (Bloomberg ) -- Online-gambling stocks rose after the Financial Times said House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank wants to repeal a law passed last year that criminalized the industry.
Shares of Gibraltar-based PartyGaming Plc, the world's biggest Internet poker operator, had their biggest gain in 15 months. Shares of 888 Holdings Plc and SportingBet Plc also advanced in London.
``I am working on legislation to cut back on this Internet gambling thing,'' the FT cited Frank as saying on its Web site, referring to last year's law. ``I think it's preposterous,'' and the law is one of the ``stupidest'' ever passed, the FT cited him as saying. ``Maybe we can make some money off it,' he added.
Online-gaming stocks plummeted across Europe in October after Congress unexpectedly banned the collection of credit-card payments from gambling Web sites.
``The slightest indicator that operators may get business back in the U.S. is going to get speculators coming in,'' said Andrew French, a sales trader at E*Trade Securities in London.
The Gaming Intelligence Group out of the UK reported the following;
There is a great deal of expectation surrounding the online gaming industry these days with a spate of positive news to boost the sector. We have had strong earnings results from several publicly traded gaming companies, stocks are rising, advertising rules are relaxing (well in the UK at least), and now some positive murmurs from the US.
Rumours have been growing surrounding the possibility that charges may be dropped against John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence, the former Neteller directors and the London Financial Times today reported on efforts by Barney Frank, the Democratic chairman of the House Financial Services Committee to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) which was passed by the US Congress last year.
Congressman Frank has long been opposed to a ban on internet gambling and it is hoped that with a strengthened Democratic party on Capitol Hill, he may be able to push through changes which would at least soften the law.
Speaking in Congress last year prior to the UIGEA, he responded to claims that online gaming contributes nothing to the US economy by stating, “Has it become the role of this Congress to prohibit any activity that an adult wants to engage in voluntarily if it doesn't add to the GDP or make us more competitive? What kind of socio-, cultural authoritarianism are we advocating here?”
Addressing the moral argument, Mr. Frank went on to say “I agree there is a practice around today that causes a lot of problems, damages families, people lose their jobs, they get in debt. They do it to excess. It is called drinking. Are we going to go back to Prohibition? Prohibition didn't work for alcohol; it doesn't work for gambling.”
Det kunne godt nok være dejligt at få alle de tusinder af fisk tilbage på poker scenen :D SHIP IT USA!
Har fulgt lidt med i Legislation forummet på twoplustwo. Senator D`amato (der åbenbart er en stor kanon over there) er blevet formand for poker players alliance, hvilket skulle være en ret stor hjælp til alle dem der ønsker amerikanerne tilbage