The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative promotes the freedom of individuals to gamble online with the proper safeguards to protect consumers and ensure the integrity of financial transactions.

Additionally, the Initiative is a resource for information about legislation to regulate Internet Gambling and provides individuals, organizations and companies the opportunity to support the legislation and engage their elected officials.

"I want to get it undone.  If an adult in this country, with his or her own money, wants to engage in an activity that harms no one, how dare we prohibit it?  Adults are entitled to do with their own money what they want."

- Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) on enactment of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act

“The ban on Internet gambling is misdirected - and it's also probably unenforceable. People will still gamble on the Web, just without the protections that a legal framework could provide to ensure age-verification and protection against fraud.”

- Congressmen Steve Israel (D-NY) and Peter King (R-NY) from their New York Post editorial “Web Gambling: Tax Don’t Ban”

“Even under the most conservative estimates, licensing and regulating Internet gambling – and collecting the taxes that are due – will provide much-needed revenue to the U.S. Treasury. This is money we are currently losing to other jurisdictions, for no other reason than some of my colleagues think we can actually stop people from gambling online. It is money we will continue to lose if we ignore the fact that if grown adults in America want to gamble online, they can and they will.”

- Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) from testimony submitted to the House Committee on the Judiciary