{"id":1251,"date":"2007-03-14T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T02:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/gambling-bombshell\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T21:18:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T02:18:41","slug":"gambling-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/gambling-bombshell\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Bombshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the House Financial Services Committee is considering legislation that would overturn the ban on online gambling passed last fall.<br \/>\nA spokesman for Democratic Representative Barney Frank, of Massachusetts, said today the congressman may introduce a bill to reverse the Internet gambling law.<br \/>\nSpokesman Steve Adamske stressed there is nothing concrete yet and described the bill in the thinking Stage.<br \/>\nThe Financial Times quoted Frank today saying that the law is, quote, &#8220;preposterous.&#8221; He also called it one of the &#8220;stupidest&#8221; ever passed.<br \/>\nthe act makes it illegal for U-S banks and credit-card companies to process payments to online gambling businesses outside the United States.<br \/>\nThe legislation caused British companies like Sportingbet P-L-C and Leisure and Gaming P-L-C to sell their U-S operations.<br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kesq.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=6228930&#038;nav=9qrx\">Associated Press<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chair of the House Financial Services Committee is considering legislation that would overturn the ban on online gambling passed last fall. A spokesman for Democratic Representative Barney Frank, of Massachusetts, said today the congressman may introduce a bill to reverse the Internet gambling law. Spokesman Steve Adamske stressed there is nothing concrete yet and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/03\/gambling-bombshell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gambling Bombshell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}