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In the United States, gambling issues drew upwards of $6.98 million in lobbyist spending in the first quarter of 2008.

But, narrowing the field to Internet gambling issues, gaming interests spent almost as much in the first three months of 2008 lobbying Congress as they did in the last six months of 2007.

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