Gaming Group Spends $1.7M on Lobbying

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The word lobbyist is a bad word it seems during election years here in the states , but sometimes I really think to get the laws changed that it's going to take lobbyist money to make the difference......

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - The American Gaming Association, a trade group that represents the casino industry, spent $1.7 million in 2007 to lobby the federal government on Internet gambling legislation.

The trade group, which opposes legislative proposals that would preempt state authority to regulate gambling, spent $800,000 on lobbying in the second half of the year, according to a disclosure form posted online last week by the Senate's public records office.

The American Gaming Association supports legislation that would fund a federal study on the impact of Internet gambling. The group has remained neutral on a law passed by Congress in late 2006 that attempts to crack down on Internet gambling by banning the use of credit cards to pay for online bets.


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