by: Gene Koprowski.
The Legal and Veterans Affairs Committee's move addressed major gambling bills to come before the legislature this year.
Politicians voted to send a bill to allow casino gambling in western Maine to the full legislature for debate. They also called for studies to create a gambling policy for the state.
"It does conclude the battle, but it does not conclude the war," said Sen. Nancy Sullivan, the committee's co-chair.
The panel deadlocked 5-5 on Rep. Sawin Millett's bill to allow a casino in Oxford County, provided voters in the host town vote to allow it.
The vote, which still leaves three committee members to weigh in, almost guarantees debate when the bill reaches the House and Senate of the state of Maine.
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