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Fantasy sports hearing likely, GOP chairman says
The Hill ^
| September 17, 2015
| David McCabe
Posted on 09/18/2015 6:26:00 AM PDT by C19fan
A House Republican chairman said on Thursday that he is likely to call a hearing on the new fantasy sports sites that critics say are skirting gambling laws.
"My sense is that we will do a hearing," said Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "Theres a lot of things on our front burner right now, but I think this is an issue that we ought to take a look at.
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: fantasy; gambling; sports
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The Middle East is burning, the economy sucks, yet the GOP Nanny Staters want to spend time on fantasy sports. I wonder if Adelson worried about people gambling on fantasy sports instead of in LV gave Upton a call. The "Baptists-Bootlegger" coalition strikes away to take away freedom.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:26:00 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Glad all of the really serious problems have been solved.
/s
What a bunch of friggin’ morons.
And they expect us to take them seriously.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:28:08 AM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
To: C19fan
Precisely. Beat me to it by four minutes.
Damn fools.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:28:33 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: Arm_Bears
Fred Upton....the same ahole who banned the traditional light bulb.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:29:26 AM PDT
by
july4thfreedomfoundation
(Liberals are like the Taliban and ISIS....destroying cultural icons they don't like.)
To: C19fan
Please make it stop!!!
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:29:44 AM PDT
by
BerniesFriend
(I am BerniesFriend, however it's really Bernadette, NOT Bernie Sanders friend!!!!!!!)
To: C19fan
If this is hurting his casino business, why doesn’t Adelson GET IN on the fantasy sports stuff instead of trying to stop it? He certainly has millions lying around with which to launch his own Fan Duel type site.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:30:43 AM PDT
by
C. Edmund Wright
(WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
To: C19fan
...skirting gambling laws...What that always means is that they are following gambling laws.
Like when you "skirt traffic laws" by going the speed limit.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:32:09 AM PDT
by
Rinnwald
To: C19fan
You are absolutely correct on the Adelson angle, and dead wrong on the "nanny-state" angle.
This is nothing to so with morality, and everything to do with protecting major interests in the casino industry.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:36:06 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("It doesn't work for me. I gotta have more cowbell!")
To: Rinnwald
If is gambling, and ingeniously legal. When sports books are legalized nationwide, Fantasy gambling will all but disappear.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:42:49 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: C19fan
If he’s so concerned about this then let him call for a ban on lotteries first . . . at least these sites require you do some homework.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:43:07 AM PDT
by
LRoggy
(Peter's Son's Business)
To: C19fan
Reacting with limitless courage, the Congress of the United States moves swiftly in the deflate gate non-scandal to protect gamblers on football games. Now Congress moves to protect establishment gambling companies from Internet gamblers, no doubt who bet on football games.
There is no end to the good Congress can do.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:43:26 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: nathanbedford
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:45:13 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
To: C19fan
I'd be willing to bet (?) that one of the "Families" is controlling all these.
D.C.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:45:56 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: C19fan
Stupid morons. These idiot probably do not even realize how petty this makes them look.
To: Rinnwald
I would not say they are skirting federal gambling laws, I would just state that they are violating them. Fantasy sports has been classified as games of skill. Where one selects a team of players and competes against others for prizes. The skill comes from being the best evaluator of talent, thus your team wins. However, these fantasy games are based on full seasons, not one day. For example, you pick David Ortiz over Alex Rodriquez, and over the year one performs better than the other, it is a reflection of ones skill as an analyst. If you pick Arod over David Ortiz for what they will do on Thursday Aug 23, than you have entered the world of gambling. There is no skill involved, it is pure game of chance. These fantasy game companies are engaging in the later, not the former. These companies are bookmaking operations masquerading as fantasy sports. The only way these companies can come into compliance would be by dropping the day by day play, and just use full season results.
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posted on
09/18/2015 6:51:50 AM PDT
by
gusty
To: C19fan
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posted on
09/18/2015 7:00:15 AM PDT
by
piytar
(Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
To: C19fan
This piece of shit, fred Upton, REFUSES to protect the electrical grid from sabotage or EMP, but he has time to interfere in fantasy football.
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posted on
09/18/2015 7:10:38 AM PDT
by
Captainpaintball
(Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
To: C19fan
.
Planned Parenthood Senate/House hearings with ALL videos shown to America ?
Not convenient ...
.
To: Arm_Bears
Obviously these outfits failed to apply enough “grease” to the political process....
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posted on
09/18/2015 7:24:02 AM PDT
by
nascarnation
(C. Edmund Wright says I'm a moron)
To: C19fan
The GOP held a hearing on youth soccer last week.
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posted on
09/18/2015 7:24:35 AM PDT
by
lodi90
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