Representative Frank recognizes and preserves the role of the individual States as well as the joint nature of the RFMC relationship.

I cannot understand how anyone would think that it is the role of the Federal Government to prohibit them from doing that.

I am for as much freedom as I can get for people as long as they are not hurting others.

Prohibition of an entirely voluntarily activity rarely works in a free society, certainly with something as expansive and accessible as the Internet.

I don't think we should ban either poker or anything else that is voluntary, doesn't hurt anybody else, including gambling.

Do we single out the Internet for specific prohibitions and restrictions?

I had thought there was a consensus in this Congress, particularly strongly held by my Republican colleagues: Hands off the Internet, don't interfere with the Internet.

We should neither encourage it nor discourage it. And not making something illegal is not an encouragement of it or an endorsement of it.

I thought that was the reverse of what people were talking about, because the legislation that unfortunately passed the Congress came out of the Committee on Financial Services enforces the prohibition on gambling.

The notion we should ban in a society for everybody things that are OK for adults because children might get to them is the end of freedom.

There are some things that are damaging to others and the government should prohibit.