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A recent lobbyist for the National Football League who now works at the White House is playing a controversial role in the Bush administration’s last-minute effort to implement a ban on many forms of Internet gambling before the end of the president’s term, according to congressional and administration sources.
William Wichterman, who with others at the [...]

Alongside Barney Frank, who released a similar statement, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has written a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding complaining that it appears the Bush Administration wants to finalize federal rules against Internet gambling before it leaves office.
Cohen, a proponent of the Internet gambling that Congress banned in 2006, also raised [...]