“The outlook does not look optimistic for Senator Kyle”

A great number of endeavors have been made by law authorities in recent years, and without any significant degree of success, to introduce bills for providing concrete action in enforcing the illegality of Internet gambling. Internet gambling refuses to disappear and insists on becoming more popular than ever and well accepted among the United States mid-stream population, all this despite the 1960 Wire Act, suing operators of online casinos and making it illegal for betting by using phone wires, and despite the official public position of the United States government against the legality of online gambling, And the popularity of Internet gambling isn’t going to contract in the near future according to the current drift. The present growing popularity of online casino games, particularly poker, only enhances online gambling’s popularity and this has become even more emphasized due to the television stations’ broadcasting of live poker contests.

It seems that the proposals against online gambling do not have very good prospects in succeeding due to both the increasing popularity of online gambling in the Unites States as well as the concern to deal with more urgent matters in the economic, political and social fields. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act being introduced by Senator John Kyle, a Republican from Arizona, does suffer from a certain lack of support, but it hasn’t prevented Kyle from going ahead with his plans. This act introduced by Kyle sweeps across the entire gambling board in that it encompasses online illegal gambling as well as standard gambling without any differentiation. Kyle’s bill, furthermore, has slimmer chances to pass due to the fact that it makes no exceptions as can be seen with other anti-gambling Internet bills. The Repulican Jim Leach also lost out by particular interest groups in 2000 when he introduced an anti-Internet gambling bill. If Leach’s bill failed, and it did include exemptions, then what chance does Kyle’s bill stand when it does not include exceptions?