Choctaws Fight Indian Gaming Bill

By Tory Newmyer and Kate Ackley
Roll Call Staff

July 20, 2006, 12 a.m.

Jack Abramoff’s oldest and most lucrative lobbying client, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, is helping hold up an Indian gaming reform measure being pushed by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who led the Senate investigation into the convicted former lobbyist’s misdeeds on behalf of Indian tribes.

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