Re: What the Real Focus Needs to Be This Year to Legalize/Help Poker
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After all, if we can't find 50 cosponsors, how can we pass this bill?
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You missed my point Engineer. We don't need the bill to pass, and thus not any of the next steps in the process, because even if it passes it is dead in the senate in a stand-alone fashion. Getting to the point the bills are now to raise awareness of the issue and garner supporters and fashion some language is fine. But my point is that lobbying resources are now better spent on getting the agreement of leaders and committee chairs in both houses to attach that language to another bill that is must pass. This is the only way any such language reaches the president's desk. Reps. Frank and Wexler, the PPA, and all of us, should be focused on getting the "language" passed in the only way that is realistic politically, and not on getting any certain "bill" passed, especially a stand-alone one that dies the moment it reaches the senate.
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