I mean, the comment on the California Lottery tells it all. This people will always have a pre-determined agenda to respect and in fact they don't actually care about the underlying value of bitcoin.
Tom Emmer was more pragmatic when he stated that:“Over the last few years I’ve been fortunate to meet with many great crypto and blockchain innovators. A common refrain during our discussion is that they so badly want to develop their crypto and blockchain ideas right here in the United States. But they don’t because of continuing uncertainty with crypto regulation.”
That's the thing.