Adelson-Backed Online Gambling Bill Won’t be Presented During Lame Duck Session
A bill to prohibit most forms of online gambling, backed heavily by GOP mega donor and casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, will not be heard during the upcoming month’s lame duck session in Congress.
The legislation, known as Restore America’s Wire Act, had gained support from only a handful of Congressional members, mostly Republicans. Adelson spent millions to push for the bill.
iGaming Business first broke the story that the HumanEvents.com website confirmed “GOP leaders decided it was too heavy a lift to push the bill through the House Judiciary Committee and onto the floor in the short amount of time left outside the Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks.”
Although there is an opportunity for it to be included in a larger bill, there is still no time for it to progress through Judiciary, iGaming Business points out.
Any further attempts to prohibit online gambling through the legislative process would have to be redrafted in 2015 as the current RAWA legislation will ultimately be scratched.
RAWA was introduced by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) and Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and co-sponsored by long time California Senator Democrat Dianne Feinstein.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
