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?
Joe Barton
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Joe Barton is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Texas's 6th congressional district from 1985 to 2019. During his tenure, Barton served as the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, where he played a significant role in shaping energy policy and telecommunications legislation. He was known for his advocacy of fossil fuel interests and his support for deregulation in the energy sector.
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.
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.
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 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.
I would also point out that we've been trying to get the facts on Solyndra for about 6 months.
Let me say on the siting issue that I think the Secretary made the right decision.
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.
Every week, Madam Chairwoman, we hear some other additional outrage about the abuse of the Internet.





