As the Congress moves into the last week of work before departing for elections, the internet gambling legislation is still being battled over.
Monday was filled with what some view as good news as House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) is making his own push to add unrelated items to the Department of Defense Authorization legislation currently in conference committee. Ultimately, this may hold up the bill or it could muddy the waters to allow other unrelated items to get in.
Discussion Thread
NROG firmly believes that the Internet gambling legislation or similar language will not be inserted into the DoD Authorization bill. See above link and discussion.
However, Monday night The Hill, a reputable newspaper of record for actions in Congress carried a different tune.
Hill Article Discussion
Please use this tread for substinative discussion for actions over the week.
Nothing is certain until Congress adjourns for the year, but the major threats of this week deal with attaching the IG language to the DoD Authorization (or other must pass bills) legislation. Remember that things change hourly, conference reports can be changed up until the minute they are filed and we may not know until the last moment if something is in or out.
Please do your best to keep this thread on topic and full of useful information for the week. I will also be jumping in and deleting what I feel are posts that are not useful, wrong, etc.