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Run Down of IGREA Supporters: 48

Congressman Barney Frank is one of the online casino gambling industry’s strongest supporters and advocates. Not long after the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) passed, Frank spoke out against the bill and all that it sought to do to limit internet gambling in the United States. Last Spring Congressman Frank proposed a bill that would neutralize the already highly controversial online casinos gambling ban and instead license and regulate the industry.

Over the past year Congressman Frank and his aides have gone to great lengths to educate politicians and members of Congress who unknowingly voted to pass the UIGEA about the dangers and repercussions that the U.S. could face if the online casinos gambling ban continues. Frank’s bill has slowly gained support over the past year and more and more politicians are pledging their support to HR 2046 Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (IGREA).

IGREA seeks to put the U.S. back into accord with the GATS international trade agreements that are currently being violated by enforcing the UIGEA. Other countries have no access to the U.S. online casinos betting industry that is still prevalent and the U.S. had questionable rights to alter commitments in the GATS treaty through the World Trade Organization. Other concerns surrounding the UIGEA come from the banking and financial sectors who claim that the proposed UIGEA accompanying regulations would cause extreme stress on the U.S. financial systems.

So the run down of current politicians and Congressman in support of IGREA include:

Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
John Larson (D-Conn.)
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Tim Bishop (D - N.Y.)
George Miller (D - CAL)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.)
Jerrold Nadler (NY 8th District)
Robert Andrews (D-N.J.)
Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)
Joe Baca (D-Calif.)
James McGovern (D-Mass.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Charlie Melancon (D-La.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
James Moran (D-Va.)
Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.)
Ron Paul (R-Texas)
Michael Capuano (D-Mass.)
Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)
Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas)
Julia Carson (D-Ind.)
Steven Rothman (D-N.J.)
William Clay (D-Mo.)
Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.)
Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.)
Robert Scott (D-Va.)
William Delahunt (D-Mass.)
Adam Smith (D-Wash.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.)
Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.)
Melvin Watt (D-N.C.)
Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Michael Honda (D-Calif.)
Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Albert Wynn (D-Md.)
Peter King (R-N.Y.)
Don Young (R-Alaska)
Ellen Taucher (D-Cal)