Longtime gambling opponent Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., warned a congressional subcommittee Friday that legalizing online poker “would be like having a casino at your fingertips 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”

The committee was considering whether to weaken a 2006 law that banned Internet gambling as a way to tap into new revenue from taxing the industry at a time when reducing the deficit is on everyone’s mind. Wolf insisted that was a poor choice, and particularly put his Republican colleagues on the spot.