outlook dims in senate for online bill

Reply #4

EXCALIBUR — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:26:05 GMT

Things are getting to be so bad that before too long we will need to use an encrypted and hidden connection in order to get things done as there will be no Internet freedom no more, as time goes by we are going the way of the chinese, that is they are taken all our freedoms away from us one at a time or maybe more than one at a time at a very fast pace.

We will have to quit using banks and credit cards and find other means of money tranfers.

And we will have to go around on the Internet li... [ More ]

Reply #3

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 21:01:30 GMT

they are saying the banks are against this bill too.its looking better as time goes on.....

Reply #2

LOTTOMIKE — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:43:13 GMT

i think things are looking better.but i'm not getting too comfortable until i know its a done deal.does anyone know the last day possible to vote on this before the deadline

Reply #1

JAP69 — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 23:22:20 GMT

So far in 2006, the casino and gambling industry has given more than $6.4 million to federal candidates, according to the nonprofit Center for Responsive Politics. That amount places it 30th among the more than 80 industries tracked by the organization.

It all boils down to who is going to fatten the polticans pork barrel.

Like the politicans say. Whats in it for me.

outlook dims in senate for online bill

LOTTOMIKE — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:16:04 GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prospects have dimmed for swift U.S. Senate passage of a bill to outlaw most forms of Internet gambling as industry trade groups and lawmakers raise objections, congressional sources said on Wednesday.

Efforts to move a House-passed measure through the Senate have run into opposition from lobbyists representing casino owners and horse- and dog-racing interests in recent days. Some Republican senators have broken ranks and placed holds on it, the sources said

T... [ More ]