"One of the biggest problems with Indian gaming in California is that the state's fastest-growing industry has expanded with little oversight at the local, state or federal level. Nowhere was that more true than in San Pablo, where federal legislation authored by Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, paved the way for urban gambling. The bill allowed a former card room to be taken into federal trust so that an Indian tribe could build a casino alongside Interstate 80 -- at one of the most congested points of one of the most congested highways in the state."

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