仅仅花了5年时间，赌博业已成为美国政坛最炙手可热的利益团体。它的影响力足可和大企业、大劳工团体和医生、律师组织长期以来所享有的影响力分庭抗礼。华盛顿两个专门监察竞选费用的组织指出，赌博业者在1993年到1994年间提供给国会候选人的政治献金，是前两年的3倍。赌博业 In just five years, gambling has become America’s hottest interest group. Its influence can be as good a match as the influence enjoyed by large corporations, big labor groups and doctors and lawyers for a long time. Two Washington-based organizations that monitor electioneering costs point out that the political contributions that gambling industry’s parliamentarians offered from 1993 to 1994 were three times those of the previous two years. Gambling industry