Gambling News by Gambling Headquarters

SENATE MAJORITY Leader Bill Frist is trying to use a bill authorising US military operations, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts. Frist, who might be having a crack at the presidency in 2008, wants to make it illegal for punters who gamble online to use US credit cards to pay any gambling debts they might incur online.Online gambling is apparently a vote winner in the politically important state of Iowa and Frist was hoping to get a few votes by managing to kill the industry off.Apparently Frist realises there will be no time left in the Senate session to ever have the gambling laws ever voted through unless it is tied to a law which essentially designed to send US troops aboard.He does not have much hope. A number of banking lobby groups opposes banning online gambling by tinkering with credit card rules. In the US, banks are an important source of campaign funds and senators are not that keen to annoy them right about now.