Texas congressman offers bill to legalize poker websites

Texas congressman offers bill to legalize poker websites

WASHINGTON — Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, is a big poker player, traveling to Indian casinos in Oklahoma several times a year to try his hand – don’t say “luck,” since the lawmaker insists that it’s a game of skill. So he wants all lovers of the game to be able to play anytime, and that means online.

“Poker is the all-American game. I learned to play poker, believe it or not, in the Boy Scouts,” Barton said Tuesday at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing. “If you learned something in the Boy Scouts, it has to be a good thing.”

The Justice Department cracked down in April on popular Internet poker sites that were operating despite a 2006 law against Internet gambling, and Barton argued Tuesday for his bill allowing legal poker websites…

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