Rejecting a proposal that might lead to states legalizing and taxing online gambling casinos, a House Judiciary subcommittee instead passed a measure May 6 to make it harder for you to gamble in cyberspace.
The voice vote approved a bill by Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) to ban credit cards, checks, and electronic fund transfers from being used to pay for cyberspace bets, according to Wired.
Leach's bill already passed the House Financial Services Committee. The full House passed a similar bill last year, Wired said, but it crashed and burned in the Senate.
Both houses of Congress have supported limiting or banning cybergambling since about 1998, the magazine continued, but because they can't agree on how to define illegal gambling or how to actually enforce a cyberbetting ban, no such bill has yet gone to the White House.
