June 26, 2015
There’s a sense of deja vu about American online gambling bills, which appear to be regularly introduced, fail and are then re-introduced in a subsequent legislative season, and that is the case with Texas Representative Joe Barton and in the latest iteration of his Internet Poker Freedom Act. On Thursday Barton was back again with […]
March 25, 2015
Very little has been heard this year from Texas Representative Joe Barton, a Republican who mid-2014 submitted an online poker legalisation bill to Congress which appeared to gain little traction. This week the Dallas News published an article suggesting that the Barton federal proposal was still in play, leaving the choice and style of legalisation […]
November 25, 2013
Attacks on internet gambling by land casino baron Sheldon Adelson, and the launch of another individual state online gambling market in New Jersey have done nothing to discourage Texas Republican Congressman Joe Barton, who this week re-emphasised to The Hill blog that he remains committed to achieving federal regulation and licensing of online poker only […]