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Call your Senators, call your Rerpresentatives and call the following Committee Chairs and ranking democrats:

Senator Susan Collins of Maine
Rep. Peter King of NY

Senator Joe Lieberman of CT
Rep. Jane Harmon of CA

(202) 224-3121

Tell them not to add non-germane legislation to the Port Security bill, in particular the anti-internet gambling legislation.


http://www.examiner.com/a-317800~Congress_Near_Approval_on_Port_Security.html

The ports bill was still being drafted early Friday, but aides said it may include a court security bill championed by House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., and legislation to limit Internet gambling.
 

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Jay...I read that article in the link it does not say they added the net gaming bill are you saying they COULD?? in the next few hrs do that?
 

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This is from some inside Congress publication.

CongressDaily update:

HOMELAND SECURITY
GOP Weighs Court, Gambling, Liability Adds To Port Bill ...
House and Senate Republicans were working behind the scenes today to attach last-minute provisions to a major maritime security bill, including the court security and online gambling legislation that Republican leaders sought unsuccessfully this week to add to the FY07 defense authorization bill. These lawmakers also indicated it was not likely they would convene another formal conference meeting, preventing Democrats from adding amendments to the final conference agreement on the bill. This prompted outrage among minority lawmakers and staff today.
At least three provisions emerged as late candidates for additions to the bill: beefing up security at the nation's courts, including language allowing judges to carry concealed guns; providing liability protections to phone companies that assist with the government's wiretapping program; and cracking down on the $12 billion online gambling industry, lawmakers and aides said. The court security provision had been tied to a House border security provision targeting immigrant gangs and criminal illegal aliens, but the two have been separated, a knowledgeable aide said. The immigration provision will be held until the lame-duck session after the Nov. 7 elections, the aide added.
House Homeland Security Chairman King declined to comment on the latest negotiations, saying only, "All this is in flux." The port security bill is an attractive target because it is viewed as one of the last legislative vehicles to be passed by Congress before lawmakers head home to campaign. "If I were to bet, we'll finish it up today," said House Homeland Security Economic Security Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Lungren, R-Calif., who co-authored the underlying port bill. "I think we're going to be here late."

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At presstime, House leaders still had not circulated final bill language, even though a vote is expected tonight. Democrats and their aides in both chambers were outraged that they might not get to offer amendments at a conference meeting and that they had yet to see the final bill language. One conference meeting was held late Thursday night, but there was no bill language and no amendments were allowed to be offered. "That was all pomp and circumstance last night," said Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J. "And it was less circumstance and more pomp." A House GOP aide countered, "We had every intention of reconvening the conference, it's coming down to the wire." When asked if another conference meeting would be held and amendments allowed, Lungren said, "I don't think that's going to happen."
Democrats were mounting a protest by presstime. "Some of the Democrats that were on the conference committee are in the process of putting together a formal response to Chairman King. It is probably going to go in the form of a letter," one aide said. It was not clear if Democrats might withhold their signatures to the conference report. "It remains to be seen if people are willing to sign off when the process has been so messed up," an aide said. Still, Pascrell acknowledged that most Democrats will probably still vote for the bill, given the importance of improving the security of U.S. ports and commercial shipping.

HOMELAND SECURITY
... As Frist Seeks Commitments For Online Gambling Rider
Senate Majority Leader Frist is now pushing to add a rider to the port security bill that would crack down on the $12 billion online gambling industry. "It's possible. It's possible, but no commitments," Frist said this morning. One House GOP aide, however, was more optimistic about it being included in the port security conference report. Frist had been thwarted in trying to get the provision in the defense authorization conference report, especially as his maneuver triggered House Speaker Hastert to push for court security and border provisions that he wanted included at the last minute. In the end, Senate and House Armed Services negotiators balked at the requests and pushed through a clean conference report. "It's floating around and it's looking for a home," Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss, said of the anti-online gambling provision.
For Frist, passage of the measure would be a political coup because it is a major legislative priority of groups such as the Family Research Council and other conservative Christians who play a critical role in the GOP presidential nominating process. The House in July passed, 317-93, a comprehensive measure to ban most forms of online gambling, but that measure was stymied in the Senate. Frist has been pushing a truncated version of the House bill that essentially would bar banks and credit card companies from processing payments for online bets and make it a crime for a gambling business to accept credit cards, wire transfers or any other bank instrument to process payments for illegal gaming transactions.
One House aide noted the rider has support among House GOP leaders such as Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner and that a recent lobbying blitz by Indian tribes against the measures has had no effect. "As far as I know, there is no opposition from this quarter," the House aide said.
 

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Direct number for rep. Peter King:

202-225-7896

He is supposedly starting to get a lot of calls. Keep them coming.
 

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deucedeuce said:
i thought this bill was dead, what happened

What happened is that the religious retards who dominate the republican party won't give up. They are applying heat on Frist to do something. He can't do much for all of their other issues, this is the easiest one.
 

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Consider myself ignorant on the subject. But when will this shit finally be over?
 

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More numbers,


Susan Collins, Chairwoman Senate Homeland Security Committee: 202-224-2523 main office, 202-224-4751 committee office (this is the more important one to call)

Joe Lieberman, Ranking Member of same: 202 224-4041, 202-224-2627 (committee office, more important)

Daniel Inouye, Ranking Member, Senate Commerce Committee: 202-224-0411

It will be over tomorrow afternoon until sometime after the November elections.
 

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Just called Peter King he's my congressman on Long Island! The staffer siad over 20 people called him on same issue in last hour - keep the calls coming!
 

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Degz said:
Consider myself ignorant on the subject. But when will this shit finally be over?

Just asked JC a question on another site and if this Bill passes and Bush signs it it could go in effect as soon as January 1, 2007
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This is the time to call the numbers above fellow posters:suomi:
 

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WOW he has truely made it personal it has nothing to do with politics anymore....its EGO

Frist hates gambling as he has LOST a ton in the past at it im sure of if he must have been a HUGE gambling DEGNERATE and lost it all ....thats the only explanation for his Crazy hate for this ... he has LOST his mind with it


it goes to show you what NUTBALLS there are RUNNING our gov
 

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Attempt to sneak anti-gambling bill into US law fails

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<SMALL>Published Thursday 28th September 2006 18:15 GMT</SMALL>
An attempt to sneak a US bill banning online gambling into law has run into trouble. Supporters of the bill had attempted to attach the bill to a defence bill being passed this week, but the move has been blocked by the Armed Services Committee.
The Bush administration and the Department of Justice are keen to pass a new law making internet gambling illegal to clear up uncertainty surrounding the 1961 Wire Act currently used in prosecutions. The bill has passed through the House of Representatives but has not yet passed the Senate. Other attempts in recent years to pass an anti-online gambling act have fallen at the Senate.
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The leader of the Republican Senate majority, Bill Frist, wants the bill to be passed this week because the Senate will enter recess to campaign for elections this week and observers say that the bill must be passed before recess if it is to have a chance of success.
A defence bill which awaits consideration and is almost certain to become law had found itself the subject of attempts to attach other legislation to it. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote to Frist raising "a strong objection" to the attaching of unrelated legislation to that bill.
"I have firmly opposed putting any bills in the conference report," he wrote. He said that attempts had been made to attach nine extra bills to the defence legislation.
Both the DoJ and the State of Louisiana have recently arrested UK citizens in the US who worked for online gambling companies.
David Carruthers, ex-chief executive of Betonsports and Peter Dicks, ex-chairman of Sportingbet, were both held, though Dicks was allowed to return to the UK. He is expected to face a hearing in New York today on attempts by Louisiana to hear his case in that state.
The US Department of Justice recently admitted to OUT-LAW that the 1961 Wire Act is 'dated'. DoJ spokeswoman Jacqueline Lesch said: "They include language about a wire communication facility which we believe includes the internet. They are dated but they cover online gambling."
"We don't think it is confusing," said Lesch. "We think it contravenes three statutes, the Wire Act, the Travel Act and the Illegal Gambling Businesses Act. This has long been a concern of the DoJ."




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/us_anti-gambling_bill_fails/
 

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a good sign though


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I just called Kings office. More to follow. F Heads ALL! LT
 

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Thanks for the info, I called encouraging support for the bill, why should Americans support the business interests of those who rob them offshore?


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BadCo said:
Attempt to sneak anti-gambling bill into US law fails

Under the Wire


<SMALL>Published Thursday 28th September 2006 18:15 GMT</SMALL>
An attempt to sneak a US bill banning online gambling into law has run into trouble. Supporters of the bill had attempted to attach the bill to a defence bill being passed this week, but the move has been blocked by the Armed Services Committee.
The Bush administration and the Department of Justice are keen to pass a new law making internet gambling illegal to clear up uncertainty surrounding the 1961 Wire Act currently used in prosecutions. The bill has passed through the House of Representatives but has not yet passed the Senate. Other attempts in recent years to pass an anti-online gambling act have fallen at the Senate.
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The leader of the Republican Senate majority, Bill Frist, wants the bill to be passed this week because the Senate will enter recess to campaign for elections this week and observers say that the bill must be passed before recess if it is to have a chance of success.
A defence bill which awaits consideration and is almost certain to become law had found itself the subject of attempts to attach other legislation to it. John Warner, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote to Frist raising "a strong objection" to the attaching of unrelated legislation to that bill.
"I have firmly opposed putting any bills in the conference report," he wrote. He said that attempts had been made to attach nine extra bills to the defence legislation.
Both the DoJ and the State of Louisiana have recently arrested UK citizens in the US who worked for online gambling companies.
David Carruthers, ex-chief executive of Betonsports and Peter Dicks, ex-chairman of Sportingbet, were both held, though Dicks was allowed to return to the UK. He is expected to face a hearing in New York today on attempts by Louisiana to hear his case in that state.
The US Department of Justice recently admitted to OUT-LAW that the 1961 Wire Act is 'dated'. DoJ spokeswoman Jacqueline Lesch said: "They include language about a wire communication facility which we believe includes the internet. They are dated but they cover online gambling."
"We don't think it is confusing," said Lesch. "We think it contravenes three statutes, the Wire Act, the Travel Act and the Illegal Gambling Businesses Act. This has long been a concern of the DoJ."




http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/28/us_anti-gambling_bill_fails/

That article while correct regarding the DOD Authorization bill is not what we are talking about here. They are now trying to add it to the Port Security bill.
 

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Sir, we have received word from the great ones, Stop Internet Gambling, their will must be done



Meanwhile back at headquarters...

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The Congresscritters and Senatecritters are as bad as each other. On the phone now.

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The contract(s) will be expired at 100 if (including but not limited to):
The 109th US Congress passes a bill and the US President signs a new law that amends the federal criminal code to prohibit persons engaged in the business of betting or wagering from knowingly accepting credit, electronic fund transfers, checks, drafts, or similar instruments, or the proceeds of any other financial transaction in connection with unlawful Internet gambling. The law must be signed on or before 11:59:59pm ET on the date specified in the contract.

The contract(s) will be expired at 0 if (including but not limited to):
Thereis no such bill passed by Congress or the bill is not signed into lawby the US President on/before 11:59:59pm ET on the date specified in the contract.
 

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Sounds like this bill will be voted on tonight and is expected to pass.

Looks as if that scumbag Frist is somehow gonna have it attached and the rest of the Senate is turning a blind eye to it.

This is how most of this controversial crap gets signed into law. They wait till the very last day when everyone of these losers is just counting the minutes till they can go home. These criminals attach all their pet projects to a totally unrelated bill it gets passed.
 

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