Joe Barton actually said...

"Poker is a game of skill, and all my bill does is allow free will at the state level if the governor allows it for people who want to play poker online."

"I think we ought to have a law that reflects free will in this issue."

"The adoption of regulated Internet gaming in the United States means the policymakers can no longer consider regulated Internet gaming as a theoretical."

"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."