Much of the same or new?

Despite the inclusion of H.R. 2143, some observers believe Republican leadership will strip the Internet gambling language when the Rules Committee takes jurisdiction of the full bill.

This is likely to happen and is very encouraging in my opinion. If I was trying to push an anti terrorism bill through I wouldn’t want there to be any reason for it to be delayed or to be dismissed because of “grey” areas (such as online gambling).

Oxley needs to provide substantial evidence that online gaming is significantly funding terrorism for his ammendment to be taken seriously. And even if he does, it would undoubtably delay the bill going through.

I think he’s panicking and attaching it to whatever bill he can. The longer it takes for this bill to go through the more publicity it attracts and he probably doesn’t want to attract too much public attention due to the strong case for regulating online gambling in the US.