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Richard Blumenthal: “I think there is a clear moral and economic imperative in acting to prevent the abuses and wrongdoing that clearly are…”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I think there is a clear moral and economic imperative in acting to prevent the abuses and wrongdoing that clearly are in inherent, almost inescapable, in this form of gambling if we fail to take effective countermeasures.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal stresses the need for action against gambling abuses.

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