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Senate Committee Hearing Focuses on What Wire Act Opinion Means for Indian Tribes

Poker got its first public attention on Capitol Hill for 2012 on Thursday with a second hearing in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

Following up on an initial November hearing, the Senate committee discussed what the Justice Department opinion that the Wire Act applies only to sports betting means for Indian tribes.

Witnesses for the hearing were broken into three groups (written testimony linked): representing the Indian tribes, Robert Odawi Porter, president of the Seneca Nation of Indians; scholars Kevin Washburn, dean of the School of Law Administration at the University of New...

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Does anyone know the likelyhood of online poker regulation on a federal level? I ask this because my state is not in favor of it but of course I want them to be.

02-10-2012 13:25

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bluestone77 (User Offline) Wrote 25 posts
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@bluestone77 - It will likely get adopted on a state level before the Fed Govt - with Nevada leading the way and maybe before mid summer.

02-10-2012 16:46

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Percival (User Offline) Wrote 119 posts
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