Government officials now able to travel to Las Vegas

Who said you can’t mix business with pleasure? Well, the government, apparently. But Nevada Senator Harry Reid is changing that.

During the Bush administration, federal emails pushed to avoid having official meetings, conferences, and conventions in gambling cities across the nation, leaving Las Vegas on a kind of travel blacklist. Recently, Reid U.S. Representative Suzanne Kosmas (D-Florida) petitioned to President Obama to open the doors on business travel to Las Vegas once again.

The new bill, called “Protecting Resort Cities from Discrimination Act of 2009” will remove the city from the national black list, and possibly encourage more business conferences to hold meetings there, if it makes more economic sense for a company. Now, remote conferences can focus less on destination, and more on cost/benefit analysis when choosing a location.

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