Although the United States passed the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, this doesn't mean that every United States Congressman supports the act.  In fact, one Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts has called the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act the "stupidest law ever passed!"

Since the beginning, Frank Barney, who is a graduate of Harvard Law School, has opposed the approach that the United States Congress has decided to take in regards to online gambling.  Since 2006, when the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act was originally introduced, Frank has been a vocal opponent of this piece of legislation.  In 2007, Frank sponsored the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act.  While this may seem like it is extremely similar to the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act, Frank's piece of legislation was actually significantly different.  Whereas the UIGEA is basically a ban on online gambling (the technical basis of the UIGEA is that it "prohibits the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an Internet gambling site"), Frank's Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act sought to create a licensing system for online gambling websites, which would allow the government to create reasonable regulation standards for online gambling websites instead of simply banning them.

Even though his first piece of legislation did not make it into law, Frank did not let this deter him from fighting to protect the rights of online gamblers and poker players.  Interestingly enough, Barney Frank does not actually gamble, but he obviously feels that Americans have the right to decide whether or not they want to engage in online gambling.

At the beginning of this year, Frank (along with Ron Paul), introduced the Payment Systems Protection Act for the first time.  Unfortunately, his attempts to pass the Payment Systems Protection Act ended when the committee that was voting on it came to a deadlock.