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.

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

If we don't want to tell an 8-year-old what to eat for lunch, why are we telling the 8-year-old's parent, a 28-year-old, no, you can't gamble, we don't think that is appropriate?

Let's define what this is. This is allowing adult Americans to spend their own money as they wish in a form of recreation that they enjoy.

I think you have done what we all can try to do and it is hard to do.

This is the second oversight hearing we have had this week to denounce the lack of oversight, because there was a field hearing.

It should have been on Halloween, because we have conjured up a series of spooks, and ghosts, and goblins, and nonexistent creatures.

I said before I thought it was interesting that we were having an oversight hearing to in part denounce the lack of oversight, and I misspoke.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I intend to talk about the Federal Reserve, but preliminarily, having listened to my colleague from Texas, I did want to note a little bit of a dissent. He cited Queen Isabella of Spain and King James of England for…

The swipe fee thing was a present to America from the United States Senate.

There was no right to make a profit if there is mistreatment of the customers.

I want to quote from a column earlier this week written by Paul Krugman, who does an extraordinarily good job of presenting the case for a change in our economic policies to deal with the unemployment that plagues not just us, but others…