If you're Sheldon Adelson, you get to call your own congressional hearing

By Timothy P. Carney, Timothy P. Carney

Published December 20, 2015

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson supports federal regulation that outlaws online gambling.

That's fairly normal: Big businesses often seek regulation as a way to protect themselves from that wretched thing called competition. Here's the extraordinary thing: Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz actually adopted as the title of his hearing on online gambling yesterday a tagline Adelson's lobbyists had been using.

The Poker Players' Alliance published this picture to demonstrate the point about Adelson, a major Republican donor.

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Timothy P. Carney, The Washington Examiner's senior political columnist, can be contacted at tcarney@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
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