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Senator Harry Reid Expects More Push To Ban Online Gambling in 2015
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Senator Harry Reid said Friday that Congress next year will look at legislation to outlaw Online gambling, and he plans to suuport a ban while trying to achieve an exemption for online online poker.
“I think there will be efforts made to check out the Wire Act in the Republican-initiated Congress” Reid said. “I think there will be efforts made to eliminate the Wire Act. ”
Along with billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, a good opponent of Internet betting, pressing for action, House and Senate leaders were lobbied to put a prohibition on online gambling right into a year-end spending bill. The effort failed within the closing days of the lame-duck program.
The legislation would have nullified the 2011 Justice Department opinion how the relevant law, the Interstate Wire Act of 1961, only outlaws sports activities betting online. The opinion started a burgeoning industry as 3 states — Nevada, Delaware and Nj — have legalized forms associated with online gambling while other states are looking at doing the same.
Reid said he and Adelson agree that online gambling ought to be prohibited.
“I think the amount of gambling on the web is not good for the country, ” the Democrat who once served as chairman from the Nevada Gaming Commission said within an interview. “I think it is definitely an invitation to crime. I believe it is hard to control for criminal offense when you’ve got brick-and-mortar locations, let alone something up within the sky someplace, and it is extremely bad for children. ”
“If there's a chance to (legalize) poker, I'll do that, but I am not for that Wire Act, ” Reid stated. Nevada has legalized poker on the internet, with Caesars Entertainment and Erina Gaughan’s South Point operating online poker sites. A third entry, Station Casinos, recently closed its website.
EXEMPTION FOR POKER
Reid’s role within the lame-duck negotiations was fuzzy. He said Friday he was prepared to try and carve out an exemption for poker within the Senate if the House experienced passed an online gaming ban. It was not clear how that could have happened in the fast-moving coming days.
If a Web betting ban advanced, “then maybe there might have been an opening somehow with regard to poker … but until that happened I'd have no chance to do something, ” he said.
Reid said the only method legalized poker can pass Congress is if it's coupled with legislation that prohibits other styles of online gaming.
“Just to get poker alone won't work, ” Reid said. “We attempted that. ”
Reid denied one rumor that became widespread recently. He said he and Adelson didn't have a gentlemen’s agreement which Adelson, a deep-pocketed Republican traditional, would help Reid get re-elected within 2016 if Reid helped move an online gambling ban.
“No, ” Reid stated. “Sheldon Adelson and I have been friends for a long period, but on politics he as well as I don’t agree, so we don’t do politics. I’m happy he joined my position (on online gambling), but no, there was nothing” on the deal between them.
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Monte Kivo
Senator Harry Reid said Friday that Congress next year will look at legislation to outlaw Online gambling, and he plans to suuport a ban while trying to achieve an exemption for online online poker.
“I think there will be efforts made to check out the Wire Act in the Republican-initiated Congress” Reid said. “I think there will be efforts made to eliminate the Wire Act. ”
Along with billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson, a good opponent of Internet betting, pressing for action, House and Senate leaders were lobbied to put a prohibition on online gambling right into a year-end spending bill. The effort failed within the closing days of the lame-duck program.
The legislation would have nullified the 2011 Justice Department opinion how the relevant law, the Interstate Wire Act of 1961, only outlaws sports activities betting online. The opinion started a burgeoning industry as 3 states — Nevada, Delaware and Nj — have legalized forms associated with online gambling while other states are looking at doing the same.
Reid said he and Adelson agree that online gambling ought to be prohibited.
“I think the amount of gambling on the web is not good for the country, ” the Democrat who once served as chairman from the Nevada Gaming Commission said within an interview. “I think it is definitely an invitation to crime. I believe it is hard to control for criminal offense when you’ve got brick-and-mortar locations, let alone something up within the sky someplace, and it is extremely bad for children. ”
“If there's a chance to (legalize) poker, I'll do that, but I am not for that Wire Act, ” Reid stated. Nevada has legalized poker on the internet, with Caesars Entertainment and Erina Gaughan’s South Point operating online poker sites. A third entry, Station Casinos, recently closed its website.
EXEMPTION FOR POKER
Reid’s role within the lame-duck negotiations was fuzzy. He said Friday he was prepared to try and carve out an exemption for poker within the Senate if the House experienced passed an online gaming ban. It was not clear how that could have happened in the fast-moving coming days.
If a Web betting ban advanced, “then maybe there might have been an opening somehow with regard to poker … but until that happened I'd have no chance to do something, ” he said.
Reid said the only method legalized poker can pass Congress is if it's coupled with legislation that prohibits other styles of online gaming.
“Just to get poker alone won't work, ” Reid said. “We attempted that. ”
Reid denied one rumor that became widespread recently. He said he and Adelson didn't have a gentlemen’s agreement which Adelson, a deep-pocketed Republican traditional, would help Reid get re-elected within 2016 if Reid helped move an online gambling ban.
“No, ” Reid stated. “Sheldon Adelson and I have been friends for a long period, but on politics he as well as I don’t agree, so we don’t do politics. I’m happy he joined my position (on online gambling), but no, there was nothing” on the deal between them.
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