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Arizona Senator opposes Barney Frank's bill to regulate and control online gambling in the US

Anti-online gambling Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has wasted no time hitting back at recent attempts by Congressman Barney Frank to introduce legislation that would regulate and control online gambling.

The National Ledger.com published an article authored by the Senator asserting that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act will not be repealed. But the intention of the Frank bill is not to repeal, but to introduce regulation possibilities to the UIGEA. Senator Kyl also seemed to be blurring the lines between online and offline gambling in his article, referring extensively to a recent major gambling ring bust in his home state that used Internet betting sites to place bets initiated on land.

Kyl also attacked the online poker sector, claiming that it encouraged gambling among the youth of America and citing the National Annenberg study of youthful gambling, which apparently claims that in recent years there has been a rising trend in online gambling that is significant and worrying.

Using the Arizona Office of Problem Gambling Youth Survey last year as a reference, online observers were quick to point out that that in a survey of more than 60 000 students in grades 8 through 12, the vast majority (92.4 percent) had never gambled on the Internet! And 30.6 percent respondents had played the lottery or scratch tickets, indicating that the most addictive form of gambling among Arizona's youth is probably the states own lottery!