You just have to know where to look for news.....geeeesh!!
Go here and enter "Kyl"
lifeofluxury.com
Quite a nice site actually.
I got 12 hits.
Kyl Bill Likely To Be Shelved For -- 9/21/98
by Matt Hegarty
WASHINGTON - With the House Judiciary Committee
preoccupied with the White House scandal and only three weeks
left in the 1998 legislative session, legislation that effectively would ban gambling over the Internet almost certainly will be shelved,
officials said Monday at the American Horse Council annual
meeting in Washington.
Should the two bills proposing to regulate Internet gaming not pass
in 1998, they will need to be reintroduced in 1999, beginning anew
the political processes that led to the drafting of the bills in the first place.
The more well-known bill, S. 474, which is popularly referred to as the Kyl bill after its chief sponsor, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona, has been passed by the Senate as an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, State, and Judiciary Appropriations bill. But the House passed its own version of the appropriations bill without the amendment, requiring a House and Senate conference committee to haggle over the specifics of the Kyl bill before it can be passed as law.
Racing lobbyists and officials now say that legislators do not have enough time to work out those differences before Congress adjourns, and that the process has been further complicated by objections voiced by representatives of the House over legislation being attached to a spending bill.
"The Kyl bill is in the appropriations process, and not the normal legislative process," said Tad Davis, an American Horse Council staffer who lobbies on behalf of horse racing on Internet legislation, "so likely that bill will never be passed."
The second bill, H.R. 4427, which was introduced by Rep. Bill McCollum of Florida, was reported out of the Crime Subcommittee on Sept. 11 to the full Judiciary Committee, which currently is wrestling with the possibility of impeaching President Clinton. The Judiciary Committee is expected to do little more than that in the final three weeks of Congress, meaning H.R. 4427 will die there.
Kim McKernan, a lobbyist with the Washington-based firm O'Brien and Galio who has been retained by the National Thoroughbred Racing Association to assist on lobbying efforts concerning Internet gaming, characterized the prospects of either bill passing as "bleak," saying there is too little time for S. 474 and no importance attached to H.R. 4427.
Although racing had thrown its tentative support behind the Kyl bill because it contained language that allowed states to determine whether to allow pari-mutuel wagering on racing over the Internet, racing interests are not disappointed that the legislation could be shelved, confident in the inroads they have made while lobbying and seeing opportunity to tweak the language in a new bill that would favor racing to a greater degree.
"It would not be the end of the world if we had to start all over again," said Jay Hickey, president of the American Horse Council.
>>To: The Street (694 )
>>From: Mephistopheles
Thursday, Sep 24 1998 12:14PM ET
Reply # of 696
>>Is it something to do with the Kyle bill? Cryp is up too... Is it dying?
>>The Kyle bill is affecting snmm as well, that you want it or not.
Hunh?
What?
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