Bill to ban online gambling quietly introduced to the US Senate

Amid the fanfare that is the upcoming U.S. presidential elections, one senator has sneakily made a move to ban online gambling again in the country.

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., quietly filed a new bill, S.3376, on the Senate agenda last September 21. The bill was read twice before it was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, which means that is eligible for debate as well as voting for its passage.

According to the Congress website, S.3376 seeks “to ensure the integrity of laws enacted to prevent the use of financial instruments for funding or operating online casinos are not undermined by legal opinions not carrying the force of law issued by the federal government lawyers.”

The Poker Players Alliance, which first broke the news, added new information about S.3376, which includes a description that the bill is a “reaffirmation of prohibition on funding of unlawful internet gambling.”