When it does, it will quickly become one of the largest employers in the city probably why voters there approved the gambling bill, overwhelmingly.
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Already, one congressional appointee to the commission is from the gaming industry, and gambling opponents fear that President Bill Clinton will reward contributors to his re-election campaign by also naming industry representatives.
In Baltimore, the Mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, just rolled out a plan for property tax relief financed by the projected gambling revenues from a gaming bill bumbling through the state legislature.
More recently, U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has filed an Internet-specific anti-gaming bill called the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act, expected to be signed into law in the U.S. later this year.
Then in March 1996, another challenge: A bill to study the effects of gambling on American society.
This was a bill designed to rein in the secret deals and reckless gambling that nearly brought down the financial system.
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The bill going through Congress highlights America's confused attitude to gambling.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton considered funding welfare reform with a four percent tax on gambling.
Companies cannot legally offer online gambling in the U.S. but there have been rumblings that a bill in the U.S. Senate could be passed allowing it.
Huge swathes of America's online gambling industry, chiefly horse-racing and state lotteries, are exempt from the bill.
America remains the world's biggest single online gambling market by far, despite the passage in 2006 of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act (UIGEA) a provision tacked onto a port-security bill that prohibits the transfer of funds from a financial institution to an online gambling site.
Maybe with a larger-than-expected restaurant bill, or spending too much on a hobby, or spending too much on gambling?
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