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Ex-NFL Lobbyist in Push to Curb Online Gambling

November 12th, 2008 No Comments

A recent lobbyist for the National Football League who now works at the White House is playing a controversial role in the Bush administration’s last-minute effort to implement a ban on many forms of Internet gambling before the end of the president’s term, according to congressional and administration sources. William Wichterman, who with others at [...]

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Another Congressman Demans Bush Stop Pushing Anti-Online Gambling Laws

November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Alongside Barney Frank, who released a similar statement, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has written a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding complaining that it appears the Bush Administration wants to finalize federal rules against Internet gambling before it leaves office. Cohen, a proponent of the Internet gambling that Congress banned in 2006, also [...]

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Barney Frank Urges U.S. to Delay Internet Gambling Rules

November 11th, 2008 1 Comment

A senior congressional Democrat on Monday accused the Bush administration of rushing to implement Internet gambling rules that have raised concerns among banks before it leaves office on January 20. “I am deeply disappointed to hear that your agency is proceeding with what I consider to be unseemly haste in issuing regulations implementing the Unlawful [...]

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Treasury Department should not overreact to Internet gambling

November 1st, 2008 No Comments

The following opinion piece was published by CNET, written by Dick Armey, the chairman of FreedomWorks, a national grassroots organization dedicated to lower taxes, less government, and more freedom. While most of us are distracted watching the presidential election, the U.S. Treasury Department is quietly pushing through new rules that potentially will have devastating consequences [...]

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Obama, McCain, Biden, Palin.. Who’s the best for Internet gambling?

October 16th, 2008 No Comments

CasinoOnline.co.uk has ventured into the heated presidential election campaign and found out what’s really behind the candidates plans for online gambling, digging up some surprising results along the way. In a concise summary, the present the U.S presidential election race in relation to gambling, find out about who voted ‘for’ and ‘against’ the Unlawful Internet [...]

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