Joe Barton actually said...

Let me say that prohibition will just play into the hands of the criminal element just as it did in the 1920s when alcohol was banned.

Joe Barton warns that banning Internet gaming would empower criminals, similar to alcohol prohibition.

12/09/2013

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My Texas pride doesn't need to be hurt by that, is what you are telling me.

It is not complicated if you are an elected member of Congress and all of a sudden Medicare recipients start showing up at their town, town ...

Then we should just stiff the Medicare recipients?

It is always good to have hearings like this to try to, through bipartisan basis, get facts on the table.