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12-23-2020, 07:05 AM
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Racing gets special mention in NYT partial deep dive into stealthy bill provisions..
Buried in Pandemic Aid Bill: Billions to Soothe the Richest The voluminous coronavirus relief and spending bill that blasted through Congress on Monday includes provisions — good, bad and just plain strange — that few lawmakers got to read. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/u...lief-bill.html The items jammed into the bill are varied and at times bewildering... It authorizes 93 acres of federal lands to be used for the construction of the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota and creates an independent commission to oversee horse racing, a priority of Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. Mr. McConnell inserted that item to get around the objections of a Democratic senator who wanted it amended, but he received agreement from other congressional leaders. Alexander M. Waldrop, the chief executive of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, said on Tuesday that Mr. McConnell had “said many times he feared for the future of horse racing and the impact on the industry, which of course is critical to Kentucky.” “It just developed this way over the last several weeks,” he said. “The only approach left to us was a federally sanctioned, independent, self-regulatory organization. It was our only viable option left, and this legislation accomplishes that.”
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12-23-2020, 10:52 AM
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Seems like an interesting post got deleted.....who deleted it though?
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