Menendez’s Internet Poker Bill

Menendez’s Internet Poker Bill

In September 2008, Senator Robert Menendez (D.-NJ) introduced his first proposal to legalize Internet poker, S.3616. It didn’t go anywhere, not even getting a single co-sponsor. Still, this was probably the fi rst time a bill had ever been introduced in the US Senate for the purpose of legalizing, rather than prohibiting, online games like poker. The fact that the Senator was from a state like New Jersey, with a politically powerful land-
based casino industry, made the action politically significant.