Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 16, 2006 (Internet Betting Rules Back, by Tony Batt)

The only member of the House Financial Services Committee to oppose [the bill banning Internet gambling} was Rep. Barney Frank.

"I do not myself gamble, but I do not see it as my job, as a member of the Congress of the United States, to interfere with the freedom to gamble of other adults," Frank said.

"The fact that people gamble more than they should does not seem to me a fit subject for a legislative prohibition any more than the fact that people eat more than they should, read what they shouldn,t read, go to movies they shouldn,t go to or do other things that many of us think are unwise and inappropriate."

Frank said opponents to Internet gambling include an odd coalition of conservatives and liberals.

"It seems to me that the approach of many of my liberal friends to gambling is akin gt that of some conservatives to sex-related material," Frank said. :Mainly because they disapprove of it personally, they think we can prohibit other people from doing it."