Congressman Barney Frank's Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act is steadily getting more support from other members of Congress now that U.S. citizens are beginning to speak out and get their voices heard. Recent news reports show that three more members of the U.S. House of Representatives are co-sponsoring the IGREA, now making the total number of co-sponsors thirty-five. In three short months since the time the IGREA was first introduced in April, 2007, twenty-four additional House members have stepped up to support the bill and its precedents of regulating online casinos and other forms of internet betting.

Frank's aids have confirmed that U.S. citizens who are calling and writing their local Congressman and Congresswomen are having a positive effect on getting their local members of Congress to reexamine the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. In contrast to the regulatory legislative provisions set forth by the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act, which seeks to give regulatory enforcement powers to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Act and individual State's for expressing their right to legalize online casinos, the UIGEA does indeed look like it fits Frank's description as "the stupidest law ever passed".

The bills latest sign-ups are none other than three Democrats, including Joe Baca and Lynn Woolsey from California, and Neil Abercrombie from Hawaii. And while most support is coming from the Democratic side, there are several Republicans who have expressed their support and are co-sponsoring the bill as well. In other words, it does not seem like the issue of regulating online casinos will come down to being a strict bipartisan issue.

At this stage in the game, it does not seem like the IGREA will be introduced for a House vote any time soon. Much work is still needed to be done, which is why U.S. online gamblers are still being called upon to tell their local members of Congress how passionate they are about gambling online. In the meantime, Florida Congressman, Robert Wexler has been drumming up support for his Skill Game Protection Act, which seeks to establish a carve out for online poker by establishing it as a game of skill. Considering the recent Danish court ruling overturning a previous court decision labeling poker as a game of chance, this piece of legislation may end up seeing the light of day. If either Wexler's or Frank's legislation is passed, the UIGEA will be neutralized to one extent or another.