Jay Rockefeller: “In my home state of New Mexico, horseracing is a $400 million a year industry supporting 10,000 jobs.”

I thank Senator Leahy for attempting to address my concerns about this bill. I thank his committee staff for working with my committee staff to insert clarifying report language.

If confirmed, I will commit to review all of the statutory requirements and congressional deadlines.

If confirmed, I pledge to consider all relevant facts and public comments in the docket.

Furthermore, if we are going to potentially burden our government agencies with increased costs that will be associated with complying with the bill, then I think Congress should also provide these agencies with sufficient funding to deal…