Lobbying effort for Frank bill grows

**jetset** · 27th September 2007, 12:06 AM

IGREA GETS ANOTHER SPONSOR

Massachusetts Democrat comes on board attempt to legalis online gambling in the USA

Another politician has signed up to Congressman Barney Frank's Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act, which seeks to regulate online gambling in the United States, effectively countering the UIGEA.

The latest political support comes from Massachusetts Representative William Delahunt, who signed up as a cosponsor on Monday.

Delahunt is a Democrat who has previously gone on record as opposing further restrictions to online gambling, and who voted against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act when it was rammed through Congress last year attached to a late night security bill.

IGREA was introduced to the House by Congressman Frank back in April, and achieved wide publicity when hearings were conducted on the proposal. Since then support has grown to 37 cosponsors, but momentum has been sluggish in building despite repeated pleas for players to contact their political representatives to express opposition to the UIGEA. The Frank Bill currently sits in the House Energy Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.

Currently listed cosponsors are:

Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii)
Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.)
Joe Baca (D-Calif.)
Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.)
Howard Berman (D-Calif.)
Michael Capuano (D-Mass.)
Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.)
Julia Carson (D-Ind.)
William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.)
Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.)
William Delahunt (D-Mass.)
Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
Vito Fossella (R-N.Y.)
Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.)
Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.)
Michael Honda (D-Calif.)
Steve Israel (D-N.Y.)
Peter King (R-N.Y.)
Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.)
Jim McDermott (D-Wash.)
James McGovern (D-Mass.)
Charlie Melancon (D-La.)
Ron Paul (R-Texas)
Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.)
Ciro Rodriguez (D-Texas)
Steven Rothman (D-N.J.)
Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.)
Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)
Robert Scott (D-Va.)
Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.)
Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.)
Melvin Watt (D-N.C.)
Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.)
Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)
Albert Wynn (D-Md.)
Don Young (R-Alaska)