[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15632]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      EXPLOSION OF TRIBAL CASINOS

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, I am concerned about the rapid spread of 
gambling in the United States, now largely through the dramatic 
expansion of tribal casinos, which are devastating America's 
communities and families.
  Gambling ruins families. It ruins communities. It ruins businesses. 
Gamblers often neglect their families and lose their jobs, careers and 
marriages to the habit. Gambling preys on the weak and gambling 
exploits the poor. Study after study shows that when a casino opens in 
a community, crime and suicide and bankruptcies rise.
  As if our Nation is not saturated enough with gambling operations, 
now comes news of plans to open a casino two miles from the historic 
Gettysburg battlefield. Yes, Gettysburg. Thousands of Americans from 
the north and the south died at Gettysburg. It is hallowed ground. Its 
place in our history is sacred.
  Is there no place in America immune from the lure of gambling?
  I recently wrote President Bush urging him to issue an Executive 
Order to halt the explosion of gambling with a 2-year moratorium on new 
tribal casinos. Why will the Bush administration not act?

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