CITIZEN ALERT v1.50
REPORT FROM CENTER FOR
AMERICAN PROGRESS
FRIST SLIPS INTERNET GAMBLING
PROVISION INTO DEFENSE SPENDING BILL:
"Looking to burnish his credentials with conservative Christians," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) "is making a last-minute attempt to attach a rider to the defense authorization bill that would crack down on the $12 billion online gambling industry." The bill he is looking to attach to spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "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."
Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) has sponsored similar legislation in the House. Frist has used defense bills to push unrelated legislation before. Last December, Frist inserted a provision into the 2006 Defense Appropriations bill - after conferees had signed off on the final report - to protect avian flu vaccine manufacturers from liability claims. The move promised "enormous financial relief for a small group of largely foreign-owned pharmaceutical companies."
PROVISION INTO DEFENSE SPENDING BILL:
"Looking to burnish his credentials with conservative Christians," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) "is making a last-minute attempt to attach a rider to the defense authorization bill that would crack down on the $12 billion online gambling industry." The bill he is looking to attach to spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "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."
Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA) has sponsored similar legislation in the House. Frist has used defense bills to push unrelated legislation before. Last December, Frist inserted a provision into the 2006 Defense Appropriations bill - after conferees had signed off on the final report - to protect avian flu vaccine manufacturers from liability claims. The move promised "enormous financial relief for a small group of largely foreign-owned pharmaceutical companies."
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