While that argument can be made, the lawmakers who wrote the exception for fantasy sports defined it as a game of knowledge and skill.
Mr. Lhota traveled to Washington on Thursday to make the case to lawmakers for federal aid in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — and to put a plug in for his agency and its nimble response to the storm's devastation.
He said that it is up to Obama to make the case to lawmakers and to the American people that this is the right course of action -- an indication that Republican leaders will not make a concerted lobbying effort on their own to convince their members.
It makes the honest lawmakers (that's most of them, by the way) harder to spot.
I think that my job is to identify risk and then look for solutions to the lawmakers to make the changes that will bring about protection of the athlete".
Additionally, the group pointed Thursday tweets at some of the lawmakers to make the cut.
Now it looks as if they might also have to make the case to federal lawmakers.
Still, Lerner said she hasn't previously seen lawmakers make the kind of public commitment to voting reform they were making this year.
Pat Quinn told journalists before the election that he hoped to see lawmakers make the temporary tax hike permanent during the lame duck session.
Dvorak said opt-out provisions for both welfare applicants and lawmakers make the bill toothless, and that Republicans are only pursuing it to send a political message about getting tough on poor people receiving government benefits.
