Act NOW, make this an ISSUE of Poker for you
There is no scheduled action in the Senate, but that is not the real point. The VERY real point is that a vote is certainly coming down the road.
In lobbying legislation it is never too early to beat the drum with your Senator. This has been presented as a "money-laundering" issue, not as your desire to play poker on the Internet.
CONTACT your Senator NOW to begin the theme that this is about YOU, you want to keep playing poker on the Internet and the moneylaundering stuff is hogwash.
You have a credit card and online banking, you use the Internet for all sorts of purchases, it is convenient and entertaining to play poker on the Internet ... ASK him to vote against any prohibition against using your own money to play poker.
(The Internet Gaming industry fell just 3 votes short of killing this in the House, but they did not really start in earnest until LATE in the legislative process, in 2003. IF they had started earlier and really raised player support, the prohibition might have died again this year. Instead, it has moved way ahead.)
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