Lobbying played a factor in the passage of the 2006 Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act passage, will the reverse hold true?

An editorial in the Las Vegas Review-Journal says that sports leagues and the Christian Coalition lobbied for what would turn out to be the UIGEA, now entities such as the Poker Players Alliance are trying to lobby to get the UIGEA reversed.

"The [PPA], chaired by former Sen. Alfonse D'Amato R-N.Y., says it plans to spend $3 million lobbying this session of Congress in an attempt to overturn the Internet gambling ban, or at least to carve out an exemption that would legalize and regulate online poker."

"How dare you come into my house and tell me what I can and can't do on the Internet?" asks D'Amato in the editorial.

"What about the elderly, who have no ability to travel? You're going to say to them that a form of entertainment that they have—they should be precluded from because Big Brother says no?"

Full editorial here.