H.R.4893 - Restricting Indian Gaming to Homelands of Tribes Act of 2006 Sponsor: Richard Pombo / 109th Congress

Vote Date:

September 13, 2006

Date	Location	Motion	Result	Yes	No
September 13, 2006	House	H R 4893 Restricting Indian…	Fail	247	171

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Motion:

H R 4893 Restricting Indian Gaming to Homelands of Tribes Act of 2006 (under suspension of the rules)

Location:

House

Result:

Fail

247 Yes Votes
171 No Votes
15 Not Voting

Showing contributions: Jan 2003-Aug 2008 House

Interests who did want this bill to become law (such as Municipal & county government organizations) gave an average of:

$0 to each legislator voting Yes
$0 to each legislator voting No

Interests who did not want this bill to become law (such as Indian Gaming) gave an average of:

$6,557 to each legislator voting Yes
$18,974 to each legislator voting No

Contribution data provided by the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org)

Comments

And the Indians win! by Milan Sundaresan, Jul 31, 2008 (7:27pm)

Facing tremendous opposition from several Indian tribes, H.R. 4893 sought to authorize the National Indian Gaming Commission to regulate Class III gaming and to limit lands eligible for gaming, amongst other provisions. The bill would have prevented tribes from crossing state lines and would not allow tribes that already had lands eligible for gaming from obtaining more land not contiguous to their reservations for casinos. The bill also required tribes to first receive the approval of their local community. Since the bill failed, the law stands as it was before- tribes must negotiate gaming compacts with states but do not need counties’ permission. Ultimately the stringent regulations were not put in place allowing the tribes to celebrate a clear victory.

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