Joe Barton actually said...

"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."

"This misguided approach would only serve to harm the most vulnerable populations that regulation properly protects."

"Mr. Barton's bill does not force any state to participate in the federal system, and it allows states to implement their own online gaming regulations."