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Information Site Supports IGREA

As the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) approaches its one year anniversary, a popular information portal reaches out to educate the U.S. Congress men and women. IGREA essentially functioned as an offshore online casino ban that worked by prohibiting transactions between U.S. financial institutions and internet gambling companies. Since UIGEA came into effect last year the U.S. has become part of an international dispute over international trade treaties and a case at the World Trade Organisation concerning Antigua. Over the past year congressmen and lobbying groups have worked to present legislative alternatives that would neutralize the UIGEA and instead license and regulate the online casino industry.

One of the most popular of the online casino ban alternatives is Barney Frank’s Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA). And though Frank’s bill is gaining support slowly in Congress and across the U.S., much of Congress is still uninformed about internet gambling in the U.S. For that reason, the Casino Gambling Web information portal recently took the initiative to create packets and hand-deliver them to U.S. Congressmen; no true change can happen in the U.S. if the politicians are uninformed about online casinos gambling.

The information packets contained a thorough look at the online casino industry, including a CD of the Financial Services Committee hearing testimony that supported the regulation of internet gambling. It also contained a petition to repeal te UIGEA, and more general information about the legalization of online casinos gambling. Representatives from the Gambling information portal created 435 packets, enough for each and every Congressman and woman, traveled to Washington DC, and delivered the packets.

This is just the first step though and Frank aides and the Gambling information portal still stress that each and every concerned online casino or poker player needs to personally contact their representative and voice their support of the neutralization of the UIGEA.