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WASHINGTON − At the December annual meeting of the American Gaming Association (AGA), the AGA board of directors elected Richard Haddrill, CEO and director of Bally Technologies, Inc., to a two-year term as chairman of the organiz
01/06/2012 -
WASHINGTON—During the course of 2011, American Gaming Association (AGA)-led initiatives raised more than $289,000 for the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG).
01/04/2012 -
The Department of Justice’s interpretation regarding the scope of the federal Wire Act validates the urgent need for federal legislation to curb what will now be a proliferation of domestic and foreign, unlicensed and unregulated gaming websites w
12/23/2011
Latest Speeches and Testimony
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Thank you Chair Bono Mack, Ranking Member Butterfield and the subcommittee members for the opportunity to provide testimony on behalf of the American Gaming Association (AGA). Allow me a brief introduction of our organization. The AGA represents the commercial casino-entertainment industry by addressing federal legislative and regulatory issues affecting its members, their employees and customers.
11/18/2011 -
Thank you Chair Bono Mack, Ranking Member Butterfield and the subcommittee members for the opportunity to provide testimony on behalf of the American Gaming Association (AGA). Allow me a brief introduction of our organization. The AGA represents the commercial casino-entertainment industry by addressing federal legislative and regulatory issues affecting its members, their employees and customers, including federal taxation, online poker, and travel and tourism matters.
10/24/2011 -
Frank Fahrenkopf’s PowerPoint presentation from the 2010 East Coast Gaming Congress can be downloaded by clicking here.
05/24/2010
Latest Op-Eds
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If you have picked up a newspaper, turned on a TV or looked at a website in the past nine months, you know that 2012 is an election year, and given those circumstances, the political climate and agenda on Capitol Hill in the coming year is likely to be dominated by the upcoming election.
The presidential election will get most of the media coverage, and some of the key issues debated during the campaign – taxes, health care, immigration, regulation and budget reform – will significantly affect the business community and could greatly impact how gaming companies operate.
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More than 15 years ago, the American Gaming Association (AGA) commissioned two studies on the economic impact of the commercial casino industry. Those studies detailed the macro- and microeconomic impacts of the $25 billion commercial casino industry, which, at the time, directly employed 284,000 people. The statistic I still recall from one of those studies was that for every million dollars in revenue, 13 jobs were created.
12/01/2011 -
The gaming industry has long recognized the vital role regulation plays in maintaining the integrity of our business. In fact, our industry is notable for the collaborative bonds we have formed with regulators at all levels in order to help ensure the type of tough regulatory environment we understand is essential to the industry’s existence. However, the changing nature of our industry demands a closer look at the efficacy of some elements of the current system.
11/04/2011
Latest Letters to the Editor
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Dear Editor:
Your recent article “Games of Chance” by Peter Wood levels false and unfair criticism of the gaming industry. If the arguments posed by Mr. Wood were true, communities that host casinos would be centers of depravity rather than home to successful communities that see casinos as valued partners.
01/30/2012 -
Dear Editor:
The recent op-ed “New York’s Bad Bet” by Paul Davies inaccurately portrays the gaming industry and its impact on communities across the nation.
Many peer-reviewed studies have found no connection between casinos and crime, divorce and the other social problems Mr. Davies attributes to their influence. If these claims were true, states with commercial casinos would be centers of depravity instead of home to successful communities that see casinos as valuable local partners.
01/23/2012 -
Dear Editor:
The recent op-ed “The House Loses” by Sam Skolnik relies on faulty information to inaccurately and unfairly depict the impact of the gaming industry in communities across the country
01/23/2012
