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Barney Frank is perhaps the Congressman with the most outspoken concern for the
U.S. internet gambling industry and the current political and international
debates surrounding the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
Frank has been very active in prompting discussion and education to politicians
and Congressmen with little knowledge or concern of the online casino gambling
issues in the U.S. Frank is also the key backer to UIGEA counter legislation
that seeks to neutralize the online casinos gambling ban on U.S. financial
transactions. Now that there is also widespread concern about the U.S. Treasury
Department’s proposed UIGEA regulations for the banks, Franks has commented that
he will pursue the internet gambling issue at an upcoming hearing for the
spring.
Barney Frank’s proposed act that would neutralize the UIGEA would take the
burden of the online casinos issue completely off the shoulders of the banking
industry and instead put enforcement on other areas – namely a committee that
will be specially developed to license, regulate and enforce regulations in the
United States. The U.S. banking industry is in a precarious situation over the
past year as the mortgage industry in the country goes south – this is where
Frank believes the banks should be focusing their efforts and manpower. Frank
commented, “The banks have a lot of other things to worry about right now. I
don’t think poker should be one of them.”
And the banking industry whole-heartedly agrees with Frank – there is just no
way that the banks can use the restrictions and proposed regulations to even
feasibly block illegal online casinos gambling transactions. The UIGEA and the
proposed regulations are flawed and Frank has announced plans to continue
stressing the precarious state that the UIGEA will place the banking industry
into if the proposed regulations are passed through. |