DOJ Oversight Meeting, May 3rd

From the PPA:

On Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee is holding an oversight hearing for the DoJ & AG Holder will be testifying. We need poker players to attend this hearing. This is the 1st public opportunity since Black Friday to make AG Holder aware of the poker community’s uprising at the actions of the DoJ on April 15th and the impact it is having on average Americans. Please RSVP to drew@theppa.org.

if only i were an american, gl to the US!

Forgive me if I sound ignorant, but what is an oversight hearing, and who is AG Holder?

The epitome of what is wrong in the US....

I sure wish I lived near the meeting,I would surely support the players!..I sure back those supporting us,I wish ya the best outcome.

ur cool

From Gamblers911:
DoJ Oversight Hearing: Holder Doesn’t Know if Poker is Game of Skill





The House Judiciary Committee held a Department of Justice oversight hearing Tuesday morning with a short question related to whether poker is a game of skill or chance.

(Attorney General) Holder simply laughed off the question. “That is beyond my ability,” he said, noting he could not answer the question.

Another member of the committee joked: “It’s a sport, according to ESPN.”

The PPA had requested poker players to submit their questions following indictments of the three largest online poker rooms on April 15. Each was charged with bank fraud and money laundering in addition to having their respective domains seized.

The poker community claims to have several friendly lawmakers on the Committee -- mostly on the Democratic side, according to the Poker Players Alliance.

Rep Cohen tried:

http://www.facebook.com/CongressmanS...=wall&filter=1

Rep Sanchez D-Calif made a statement about poker. But didn't really ask a question. Basically said she supported legalizing online gamblilng and that she thought his resources could be better spent going after violent crimes.
http://www.facebook.com/Congresswoma...anchez?sk=wall

Holder: I don't know who Mr. Ivey is

Cleaned up most of the rude comments - stop

Do you really think that any one or any group of politicians gives a rats butt about on-line poker or what the american people want. I say we get rid of all the professional politicians and start over.

She wasn't talking about that. A couple people acting like babies itt.

Having said that, I have to agree, especially after watching that video of AG Holder. I mean, it's clear to me he doesn't give a rat's ass.

I like this Cohen fella !

In the above youtube vid posted, at about 3:40, Holder says that "the degree of harm wasn't serious enough to go after...."

Excuse my total ignorance, but for the big players such as PS and FT, where "the degree of harm" was big enough to warrant a federal prosecution, WHO WAS HARMED?

The sites made money: no harm there.
The banks made millions in transaction fees: no harm there.
The people playing????

Exacly who was the victim?

Who was the big loser here?

my thoughts exactly.

Yea - to be clear my comment was directed at members whose posts were deleted. Made the comment cause I was going to bed and wanted to make sure they knew why their posts were missing.

Has nothing to do with Charade or this thread topic.

How long does this commitee have before they reach a desision as to us USA players to get us back to the tables.. I mean it seems that they have some control in that direction. What does this do for us anyway? I am not sure if even they can help us at all.

It seemed to me to be preety outragious that holder was lol when questioned about the poker and claimed to not even now if it was a game of skill and who phil ivey was..But yet he sits there and takes a question about playing basketball with obama,and a question about memphis grizzlies player named rudolph..where the hell is his priorities?

read a stament from barney frank saying,they have a bill already written to try and get passed to make online poker legal again,but not until the next congress meetting whenever that will be..All we can do is keep bugging our local senators and politicians to keep this ball rolling..we will get ity back but stinks it may not be such worldwide great sites like pokerstars and tilt:-(

This whole thing is amazing to me. I am glad this site seems to be a decent resource... I will need to favorite this for, if nothing else, the updates on this. Google is of very little help...

Thanks for the info guys.

Re: AG Holder: He doesn't give a rats ass and it doesn't matter one way or the other. It is his job to enforce the law whatever that my be.
What we need is a new law, and Rep Frank is trying to get one approved and passed.

Thanks Charade for keeping up to date on all this BS! I've gotten to the point now that I don't have as many games to pick from that I just really am pulling away from anything poker.

Maybe not, but they sure as hell care about the 4 billion or so it'll get them in tax revenue every year.

Here's a link to poker news.com if anyone is interested. I'm using it to keep up with current events (along with other sites).

http://www.pokernews.com/

Phil Ivey is just lucky.... lol

It would be nice to get some answers

Holder is just lucky to get his job for sure.

sigh------------miss my poker sites.
lock poker seems ok, it just takes some getting used to for me.