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      <excerpt>...Commerce Committee approved the bill Thursday on a 34-12 vote in Washington, D.C. It now awaits debate in the full House. Reps. Jim Matheson of Utah and Bart Gordon of Tennessee, both Democrats, are sponsoring the bill, along with Republican Rep. Lee Te</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Committee endorsed Thursday a bill to block it. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 34-12 to pass the bill by Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., and send it to the full House for consideration. The bill would block an Energy</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Pat Bagley's cartoon of Rep. Jim Matheson being the lapdog of the GOP and pissing on the uninsured was dead on (Opinion, Nov. 10). Matheson has completely caved to the insurance companies and has proven he is solely interested in keeping his job. He has</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...lines, that bars any foreign low-level radioactive waste to be brought onto American soil for storage or disposal.   Rep. Jim Matheson, a Utah Democrat and bill co-sponsor, said the next battle was to get the measure onto the House floor for a vote, whi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Rep. Jim Matheson is wrong when he states that &quot;a one-size-fits-all, nationally run plan that doesn't acknowledge the different health demographics in the states isn't the answer&quot; (&quot;Utah's Democrat will vote 'no' on health reform bill,&quot; Tribune , Nov. 8</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Hats off to Rep. Jim Matheson for voting against the health care reform bill in the House. He was voting for the people of Utah and not for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and all the others who want to take this country do</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...would have on the ability of free and local radio stations to continue serving our listeners.&quot; In related news, Utah Democrat Jim Matheson became the 253rd member of the House of Representatives to cosponsor the Local Radio Freedom Act, a bipartisan res</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> Utah&amp;#39;s federal lawmakers -- including conservative Democratic Rep. Jim Matheson -- have all criticized the reform bills. So it should be no surprise that in ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...of structural deficits. Barabak also mentions the other fear GOP leaders have in the Bennett race: The possibility of Rep. Jim Matheson, the conserva-Dem who represents Utah's 2nd District, might see an opportunity and run against Bennett.   Here in Uta</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>After the game, Wilson told the Journal&amp;#39;s Jim Matheson he had done no wrong in blasting his elbow into Moreau&amp;#39;s jaw. &amp;quot;I thought it was a clean hit, and so did the refs,&amp;quot; said Wilson, who didn&amp;#39;t get a minor penalty from either ref, ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>DEFEAT REP. JIM MATHESON 2ND CONG. DIST. UTAH. Jim Matheson claims he is a &amp;quot;Blue Dog.&amp;quot; All that means is that he is against health care reform, against small people being able to obtain relief in bankruptcy, against Latino immigration. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>But there are two other messages in Holland&amp;#39;s quote that -- for me -- illuminates something much more important than Jim Matheson to Utah Democrats. The idea that the loss of Matheson, for whatever reason, would be &amp;quot;suicide&amp;quot; for the ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>At the convention, Jason Chaffetz fell a few delegates short of the 60% threshold he needed to wrestle the GOP nomination away from Rep. Joe Cannon. But that only proved a temporary delay: after a short campaign dominated by ... Jim  Matheson, Salt Lake Co</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>In Utah, liberal Democratic state Sen. Scott McCoy said he was thinking about challenging five-term Rep. Jim Matheson in next year&amp;#39;s party primary, then apparently backed away from his threat. Matheson, who has a reputation for voting ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Last Spring, when Jon Huntsman was nominated to be the Ambassador to China, and Jim Matheson was non-committal with whether or not he would run for Governor in 2010, I made a list of people who could run for Jim&amp;#39;s seat. It was basically a  list of ... </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Rep. Larry Kissell (NC) 20. Rep. Suzanne Kosmas (FL) 21. Rep. Frank Kratovil (MD) 22. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH) 23. Rep. Jim Marshall (GA) 24. Rep. Betsy Markey (CO) 25. Rep. Eric Massa (NY) 26. Rep. Jim Matheson(UT) 27. Rep. ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Scott McCoy, D-Salt Lake City, muses about taking Rep. Jim Matheson for control of the 2nd District after Matheson votes against the Dems&amp;#39; health care bill in Congress. McCoy, who is twice as smart as half the Utah Senate and three ...</excerpt>
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