20 Quotes by Rick Boucher

The explosive growth of the Internet has provided a means for gambling operations to evade existing anti-gambling laws. These Internet gambling Web sites typically operate offshore and often serve as a prime vehicle for money laundering and other criminal enterprises. Our bill sensibly updates federal law to keep pace with new technologies by bringing the Internet within the fold of the anti-gambling restrictions that govern telephones.

As you can imagine, we're thrilled. We are very compatible. We share the same interests. We get along extremely well, and we love each other.

nothing more than thinly veiled attempts to circumvent the legislative process and achieve gun control through litigation.

The Internet has provided a means for gambling operations to evade existing anti-gambling laws.

I'm not ready to introduce this bill yet, I need to do some coalition building,

It has certainly occurred at the expense of the fair-use rights, which underpins our right to speak freely in society. That growing body of scholarship includes a number of prominent law professors and writers on the West Coast.

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself.

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

I have been involved in Internet-related policy for approximately one decade, and I have been using the Internet myself for almost that period of time.