barney frank

MATTERS OF CONGRESS
You gave testimony this morning to the House Subcommittee on Commerce Manufacturing and Trade. What was the purpose of the hearing?
Congressman Joe Barton from Texas has introduced a bill to legalise Internet poker only, it doesn??™t go to other things, and the regulator would be the Department of Commerce so that puts it in the jurisdiction of this Subcommittee. This hearing was on that bill and on this subject. If you introduce a bill and you don??™t have a hearing it means that no-one is going to be interested in your bill because it??™s not going anywhere.

Most bills that are introduced here in Congress don??™t get a hearing... they just sit there. Thousands are introduced every year but only a few hundred will become law. The fact that the Chairwoman of the Committee, Mary Bono Mack (California), decided to hold a hearing means that she??™s interested in perhaps moving the bill. It??™s a very good sign as it means the Committee and the Committee Chairs are interested in the subject ...[more]

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Posted on Thursday 08 March 2012 - 17:16:08

GAMING FIRMS INCREASE US LOBBYING SPEND
IGAMING CONSULTANCY FIRM, BolaVerde Media Group, has released a report into the amount spent by the online gambling industry on lobbying government officials in Washington, DC, over the third quarter of 2010.

The report revealed that 58 different parties spent an estimated total of $4.66 million over the three-month period, an 8.5 percent quarter-on-quarter increase and a 46 percent rise when compared with the same period in 2009.

Details of the parties involved and how much each spent are available in the latest instalment of BolaVerde's Internet Gambling Federal Lobbying Report along with an explanation of what may be at stake and how contributions could potentially influence the political process.

"The increase over the third quarter of 2010 was driven by a positive vote in July on Representative Barney Frank's licensing bill, which authorises Internet gambling between and among participating states and Indian nations," read a statement from BolaVerde.

Significantly, that vote was the f...[more]

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Posted on Friday 22 April 2011 - 12:34:55

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