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OXLEY SUCCEEDS IN TAGGING IGAMING CLAUSE TO 9/11 BILL :
Congressman Michael Oxley, R-Ohio, Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, has succeeded in tagging the controversial Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act (H.R. 2143), onto the proposed 9/11 Bill. The Committee approved the legislation last week and passed it on to the Rules Committee where it will wait to be passed by Congress. Should the act become law it would outlaw all online gambling financial transactions in the US, including credit cards and wire transfers. The 9/11 Bill is aimed at implementing measures necessary to prevent terrorist attacks, such as those on the World Trade Center, from being able to happen again. Oxley’s critics say he has hijacked an important cause, which he is exploiting to further his own personal political agenda. Oxley, however, claims that online casinos are ‘a safe haven for money laundering’ which could be used by terrorists. ‘It is high time that Congress closes this loophole of online casinos to those with criminal and terrorist ties,’ Oxley said.
J.Todd, this is old news and the bill has been detached as I published in a previous post here.
He may try to attach it again, but the members of congress don’t want it there and I am quite sure it won’t be there.
Oxley is a congressman from Ohio.
My friend sent this to me today and seemed confident that this was recent news.
I feel a rider on the 9/11 bill gets a 50/50 chance… depends on what majority is needed topass, and how fervently the Democrats fight it in backlash to the perceived growing issues with the Patriot Act.
Even if it passed… what would really change?
It’s already seperated from the bill. It’s done with.
It was supposed to make all money transactions more difficult – forbidding money trasfers into banks or from banks for one thing.
