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Texas Governor pushes ‘time-out’ for online gambling
March 27, 2014
The Hill – Texas Governor and potential presidential candidate Rick Perry wants Congress to step in to prevent online gambling. In a letter to Congressional leaders and the House and Senate Judiciary committees sent Monday, Perry asked Congress to reverse a 2011 Department of Justice interpretation of the Wire Act that opened the door to legalized online gambling in the states. “Congress needs to step in now and call a ‘time-out’ by restoring the decades-long interpretation of the Wire Act,” Perry wrote in the letter. Even as members of Congress battle over whether or not to legalize online gambling at…