Joe Barton

As the chief sponsor of the bill, I can assure you that I don't want underage poker players, so we will work with you on that.

My first question to the distinguished panel: Is there any one of you who believes that millions of Americans are not playing poker for money on the Internet right now?

Well, I don't know about that. I haven't got some bills passed through the Senate yet.

I would call you up and talk to you about 15 minutes on the phone if I am the regulator and ask you a few basic questions.

There should be ways to verify with the current technology is somebody is routinely beating the system, we can flag that and then we can outlaw them.

The effect on the horse racing must be considered in the expansion of online gaming.

I think we should have a robust debate.

I want to thank Chairwoman Bono Mack for having this hearing.

If you have got a bill that Barney Frank, Joe Barton, and Ron Paul are all for, who can be against it?

I have introduced a bill as the chief sponsor to remedy this, and two of my cosponsors are Barney Frank and Ron Paul.

Consequently, we passed the bill or law several years ago that is unenforceable, UIGEA. It is a bad law regardless of which side of the debate that you are on.

Poker is the all-American game. President Richard Nixon financed his first congressional campaign partially with poker winnings from World War II.

Well, thank you, Congresswoman Noem and Congressman Hurt for introducing this and being here.

EPA back in 2006 suggested that we shouldn't regulate farm dust. I wish the EPA would dust that proposal off and institute it instead of even thinking about regulating farm dust.

I would like to see Susan Richardson subpoenaed to be here because I want to find out exactly why she was putting a memo together like this.

I am not at all interested in hiding any relevant information from the American public.

Ms. DeGette said in her opening statement that she wants to get the facts on the table. That's what we're trying to do.

I would also point out that we've been trying to get the facts on Solyndra for about 6 months.

Every week, Madam Chairwoman, we hear some other additional outrage about the abuse of the Internet.

I think it is time that the Congress of the United States pass a strong, general, explicit privacy protection law.

If the Founding Fathers had had the Internet, instead of saying without the consent of the owner to put soldiers in your home, they would have said without the consent of the Internet user, they couldn't collect data.

Let me say on the siting issue that I think the Secretary made the right decision.

You can't regulate that. You can't mandate that.

The problem is not government guidelines. The problem is not knowing what is nutritious.

I thank the distinguished subcommittee chairman. I listened with interest to Mr. Waxman's remarks. Sometimes, when there's not a lot you can say substantively against an issue, you just put a lot of stuff out there and hope something…