EDITORIAL: 'Midnight rulemaking' on Internet gaming - Las Vegas Review - Journal

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Despite an earlier announcement that it would not issue any new "final" regulations after Nov. 1 except in "extraordinary circumstances" -- and despite concerns raised by the nation's bankers that the proposed regulations will be hard to obey and are not likely to work -- the outgoing Bush administration appears to be racing to finalize rules to enforce a ban on Internet gambling before it leaves office.

Critics also object that the new rules -- designed to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 -- are being orchestrated by a former National Football League lobbyist recently arrived in the Bush Administration.

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