My friends at Downsize DC are working hard to reverse the anti-gambling bill and to insure that no bill is ever passed in the same manner again. They've started an email campaign to get the bill rescinded, which you can help with by clicking here. They're also fighting to pass the Read the Bills Act, which would make it much more difficult to pass bills like this in the fly by night manner they did.
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