A chat with a friend yesterday (gambling legislation content)

[Kurn]

He's stressing it because it plays to a key part of his constituency. It's an election-year feel-good issue.

Even though it has solid bi-partisan support (probably half the Senate Dems would go along) it isn't likely to gain any traction before the election for the simple fact that there's a reasonable potential for this election to shift control away from the GOP and the Dems will likely be very cautious about any legislation before the results of the election are in.