Advocates of regulated online gambling within the Usa received excellent news this week when it was learned Sheldon Adelson and the Las Vegas Sands Corp. have decided to prevent supporting a 50-state ban on online gambling. Adelson has spent hundreds of thousands of bucks in supporting “Restoration of America’s Wire Act” (RAWA), but has seen the legislation stall on Capital Hill.

Online players is not going to celebrate too soon, since the new RAWA bill might well be perfectly tooled to cause mischief, if a nativist politician came to power trying to score easy victories over anyone deemed a devious foreigner.

RAWA first was placed before the U.S. Congress within the spring of 2014, when Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah each sponsored the bill of their respective houses of Congress. A bipartisan list of lawmakers signed directly to co-sponsor the bill, and there have been concerns whether a federal ban on online gambling might happen.

In the 2014 legislative calendar, RAWA received little support. After months of failure, proponents of RAWA tried to have the legislation placed within the December 2014 omnibus spending bill. Sen. Chuck Grassley declined to place RAWA within the omnibus and it perceived to have died in committee.

In 2015, Restore America’s Wire Act appeared to receive added impetus when its congressional proponents gained in status. Rep. Chaffetz became the chairman of the home Oversight Committee, the one committee with the authority to issue subpoenas.

Lindsey Graham launched a bid to be the Republican Party’s nominee for the 2016 presidental election. In June 2015, per week before he launched his own bid for the GOP nomination, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida signed on a co-sponsor of the bill.

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