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CURTIS, CORTEZ MASTO PUSH CFTC FOR ANSWERS ON ENFORCEMENT OF ILLEGAL GAMING IN EVENT CONTRACTS

Senators Curtis and Cortez Masto led four of their Senate colleagues in a letter to Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chair Pham reminding the Commission sports betting is regulated by states and tribes, not the CFTC. The Senators underscore that by implicitly allowing some companies to offer sports betting activities as “event contracts,” the CFTC is preventing enforcement of state and tribal gaming laws which inappropriately permits sports betting nationwide.

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CURTIS STATEMENT ON REPUBLICAN EFFORTS TO AVOID SHUTDOWN

Senator Curtis issued the following statement today on Senate Republicans’ efforts to avoid a federal government shutdown: “Today, I voted to keep the federal government open and to prevent unnecessary harm to hardworking, taxpaying families in Utah and across America. Sadly, the measure failed without enough Democratic support, and once again Washington’s dysfunction has forced a shutdown.

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Highs and Lows: Supporting Local Communities

To my colleagues in the Senate from the East, it may be hard to grasp just how deeply federal overreach affects daily life in Utah. In some counties, more than 90% of the land is owned and controlled, not by local leaders or communities, but by a distant, federal government.

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Highs and Lows: Marriage Counseling with China

For decades, Washington clung to the hope that inviting China to the  global economic table would pull them toward democracy and our shared values. Instead, the opposite has happened. While stealing our intellectual property, cheating on labor, and manipulating trade, Beijing has moved further away from freedom. I often compare

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Highs and Lows: Why Debt and Deficit Can Wait

If there’s one thing Utahns understand, it’s thrift. We plan carefully, live within our means, and expect our leaders to do the same. It’s why I’ve made debt and fiscal responsibility a cornerstone of my work in the Senate. America is more than $36 trillion in debt. Utah families don’t spend more

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