REPRESENTATIVE TAUCHER MAKES IT 45 FOR IGREA

14 December 2007

A nice Christmas present for US online gamblers


Congressman Barney Frank's Internet Gambling and Enforcement Act, which seeks to regulate and license online gambling in the United States, has another co-sponsor. Signing up this week, and bringing the total political support for the IGREA to 45, was Representative Ellen O. Taucher, a Democrat from California's District 10 who is in her sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Congresswoman Taucher is the influential Chairwoman of the House New Democrat Coalition, the largest centrist caucus in the House of Representatives. This committee is charged with enacting policies that maintain U.S. competitiveness, meet the challenges of globalisation, and strengthen national security. She is additionally a member of the Aviation sub-committee; the powerful Highways, Transit and Pipelines subcommittee and chairwoman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee.

Congresswoman Taucher is the third woman ever to chair an Armed Services Subcommittee, and she serves on the subcommittees of Air and Land Forces, and Oversight and Investigations, and is a member of the Water Resources and Environment subcommittee.

The Congresswoman was one of the few who voted against the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act when it was rammed through Congress attached to unrelated security legislation just before the Congressional election recess late last year.

The discriminatory and protectionist UIGEA has wreaked economic and commercial damage in the billions outside the USA, and has placed America in conflict with other World Trade Organisation members, causing it to withdraw its GATT obligations and opening the country to the possibility of extensive compensation payments to affected nations. The deadline for a decision on the debacle by the WTO is today (Friday, December 14 2007)

The following is the full sponsorship list to date for Congressman Frank's IGREA:

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

Congressman Frank has re-emphasised how important it is for US players who want to see an end to the oppressive and impractical UIGEA to contact their political representatives and make known their feelings. This is one of the most effective ways in which further support for the Frank Bill and the regulation of US online gambling can be achieved.

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