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SEP-13-1994 10:45
ALEXANDER & KARSHMER-DC
P.01
NATIONAL
Howard Licen M.D.
GOVERNORS
Paymond C. Scheppen
Covernor of Vermont
Executive Director
ASSOCIATION
Clear
Hall of the Seates
Tominy C. Thompson
414 North Oxpital Street
Governor of Wisconsin
Washington, D.C 20003-1522
Vice Chair
Telephone (202) 624 5300
August 31, 1994
The Honorable Daniel K. Incuye
The Honorable John McCain
Chairman, Committee on
Vice Chairman, Committee on
Indian Affairs
Indian Affairs
United States Senate
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senator Inouye and Senator McCain:
The nation's Governors are disappointed that you have radically altered the scope of gaming and
process portions of your bill to amend the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988 (IGRA). As
you know, clarification of the scope of gaming has been and remains the Governors' primary
objective with respect to amending IGRA
By this action you appear to have departed from your own process, one which, though arduous,
had moved the discussion in a positive manner. State and tribal governments spent several
months in good faith negotiations over the clarification of IGRA, and now, in your revised bill,
you completely discard the product of those discussions. Your bill almost entirely reverts back to
the scope of gaming language contained in the original TGRA, and clearly provides the tribes with
a "fast-track" compacting process. I will recommend that the Governors vigorously oppose this
legislation.
Your letter exaggerates the level of the states' dissatisfaction with the scope of gaming language
contained in your original S. 2230. As I thought I made quite clear in my testimony July 19, I
believed the Inouye-McCain amendments captured the essence of the compromise evolving out of
hours of negotiation over clarification of IGRA. Further, I indicated that relatively minor
changes were needed to make your scope of gaming proposal acceptable to the Governors. Never
did the states request that you withdraw the entire scope of gaming or process language contained
in your original bill. To the contrary, we applauded your efforts to construct a compromise and
expressed a willingness to work with you within the context of your framework.
Your current draft grants the states no relief with respect to the scope of gaming and provides
tribes with a fast-paced compacting process that is riddled with Tenth Amendment concerns for
states. This scenario contains no hint of compromise. It certainly was not our intention to have
spent these many months at the negotiation table to produce a law that is worse than the original.
Although Governors remain committed to resolving this complex issue, they would not support
returning to the negotiating table using your revised scope of gaming language as a starting point.
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