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Mike Simpson: “It has always amazed me that states can go out and open up gaming and then try to restrict it when tribes try to do it…”

On the recordApril 6, 2014
It has always amazed me that states can go out and open up gaming and then try to restrict it when tribes try to do it on their reservations.
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Mike Simpson
Republican · Idaho

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Simpson comments on the hypocrisy of states regulating tribal gaming.

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