Reid will make sure Las Vegas profits from immigration bill

Sen. Harry Reid (D) and Sen. Dean Heller (R), as part of their jobs to keep casinos satisfied, dropped into the immigration bill a provision that will indefinitely extend the government-funded Corporation for Travel Promotion. Passed in 2009, the Travel Promotion Act “allows the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to spend up to $100 million on promoting travel to specific areas of the country. If the provision Reid and Heller inserted into the proposed immigration reform legislation becomes law, the benefits of the TPA would be extended indefinitely.”

“Current law would fund the government-run program through 2015. But, now Reid and Heller have inserted an indefinite expansion of it into a bill that has nothing to do with tourism, and into a section of the bill that was supposed to be aimed at adding additional Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Border Protection officers to the current staffs of those agencies.”

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/06/22/Harry-Reid-Dean-Heller-insert-Casino-Cronyist-favor-handout-into-amnesty-bill


(Hey, Sen. Rubio! How are those amendments doing? Alaska gets more foreign fish workers, states get $1.5 billion to find jobs for unemployed yoots, and now Las Vegas gets government-paid advertising. Good work, Marco.)