Joe Barton

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

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

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.

Well, my first bill that I introduced in this committee was to repeal the Natural Gas Policy Act of wellhead pricing on natural gas.

The status of online gaming is murky, at best.

I think it is a good work product. I think it would work.

Our ability to produce natural gas with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling at the prices we can do it that are competitive impacts our ability to affect strategic interests.

this administration, who talks all the time about all-of-the-above policy, is in effect in their greenhouse gas rules going to prohibit even the option of building a new coal-powered plant in the future.

It is a very important position that you four people hold.

Can you imagine that, if we are having the horrendous problems we are having on just getting people interacted with making choices of which kind of coverage they are going to choose, the problems you are going to have when you actually…

Thank you. I want to recognize your leadership on the Republican Study Committee and the Health Task Force on preparing the legislation that you just referred to. I am the past chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, the past…

What shocks me is that Mr. Chao, our witness, who is the Deputy Chief Information Officer and Deputy Director of the Office of Information and Services for Medicare and Medicaid, who has been identified numerous times as the chief person…

I am shutting it down, I am shutting it down.

I appreciate the chairman yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are here today to begin the long process of amending--hopefully improving, and if that is not possible, at some point in time, repealing--the Affordable Care Act. The President, as…

If all the Democrats need to move away from the Affordable Care Act is a Republican alternative, I believe we can accomplish that in fairly short order.

Most of what we now call the Affordable Care Act came through this committee.

I have a bill that hasn't had a hearing yet, and hopefully this subcommittee will have a legislative hearing on it, that doesn't repeal, and it doesn't delay, but it does make the Affordable Care Act voluntary the first year.

In my State of Texas, according to figures provided to me by Dr. Burgess, who is a very good researcher, less than 3,000 people signed up for the Affordable Care Act.

I've introduced H.R. 3348, which says let's make this system voluntary for the first year, since we're having so many problems, and let the American people decide.

Ultimately the American people will decide.

If you already have insurance you like, you can keep it.

Will you commit to the committee and to the American people that, one, you do want to protect their privacy; and, two, you will take this out, fix it, make sure that it doesn't have bearing on people that try to apply through the Web site?

If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it. Period.

These increases are a heavy hardship on my constituents, on all of our constituents, Republicans or Democrats.

So when was the President specifically informed of the regulation change?