Joe Barton

It is completely reasonable to suggest, as Ranking Member Eshoo would also agree, that these outdated laws be updated over time.

I actually support a lot of what you said about in these developing nations a baseline power grid system like we have in the United States is not the most efficient means of providing power in these developing countries.

I believe that alternative energy sources like wind power and in some cases small hydro is the way to go.

I see what is going on in Pakistan today, and even if we get those lines across Afghanistan to provide power, I don't believe that government has what it takes to collect the revenues needed to sustain a big energy economy.

I thank both my friend on the majority side and my friend on the minority side for allowing me this unusual procedure. I do rise in support of the rule. I am going to vote for the rule. But, Mr. Speaker, I am going to oppose the underlying…

Sometime in the very near future, we are going to have to vote on an increase in the national debt. The national debt ceiling is currently at $17 trillion, and all expectations are that the increase will put it up over $18 trillion or at…

Well, thank you, Mr. Chair. I am not a registered professional engineer anymore.

this is one of the few things that Republicans and Democrats both agree on is a problem

If only we were still a republic.

I was here in 1996. And that act was a philosophical change from where the committee had been...

I have served on this committee since 1986. I have served with three of the four former Chairmen.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the NRC can review a design application in a few months.

I want a general ballpark estimate. Are we talking about a few million, several hundred million, a billion?

About 5 or 6 years ago I started an effort and held a hearing on the BCS, and everybody thought that was crazy.

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.

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

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

I am very interested in the state of online gaming in the United States.

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.

I want to tell the committee, Mr. Chairman, that God must be for this bill because I got up this morning at 4:00 in Ennis, Texas, outside of Dallas and braved icy roads and 20-degree temperatures to get to DFW airport when my good friends…

I think the time has come to recognize that in the Internet age we need to regulate and set a level playing field for those of us who would like to play poker online.

I appreciate the fact that all of our witnesses stayed true.

Absent a clear mandate from Congress, we risk exposing our constituents to an environment of a race to the bottom.

H.R. 2666 has been developed in openness and transparency.

I would like to start by joining the almighty and thanking Congressman Barton for his leadership on this issue and pragmatic efforts to create a regulated gaming environment.