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On the recordDecember 8, 2010
I thank the gentleman, and I want to thank Mr. Lewis for his service, too. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition. Everyone should know that in this continuing resolution there is the expansion of Indian gambling. There is the expansion of Indian gambling. And probably nobody in this institution, bar one or two people on the Appropriations Committee, has even read the bill. This overturns a Supreme Court decision. Do you all know on my side and that side, this overturns a Supreme Court decision? {time} 1640 Has anyone remembered Abramoff and corruption and problems that have come about with regard to that? How did such an erroneous provision, how did expansion get in? No markup. No markup by the Natural Resources Committee. The election just said the American people want to know that we have read the bill. Nobody's read this bill, and now this is slipped in. And I don't know who has slipped it in. But, quite frankly----
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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