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Extremism Defeats Extremism In Utah

Posted on May 9 2010 by Congress Watcher

Statistics show that Senator Robert Bennett was a right wing extremist among his colleagues on Capitol Hill. Yet, he was defeated by two Republican candidates who argued that Bennett was not extreme enough.

Jim Matheson’s Lobbyist Problem Identified By Claudia Wright

Posted on April 4 2010 by Congress Watcher

A summary of the lobbyists who gave money to Congressman Jim Matheson in 2009.

Sen. Bennett Declines Home-State Invitations, Heads to Party With Gambling Lobbyists

Posted on February 27 2010 by Congressional Aid

Utah Senator Bob Bennett has been busy declining some invitations and accepting others. Bennett failed to attend a candidate forum in his home state of Utah on February 13, 2010. On January 15 of this year, Bob Bennett declined an invitation from Tea Party activists to attend an Independence Caucus in Provo. Bennett said he [...]

Orrin Hatch Wants To Leave The Senate?

Posted on September 29 2009 by Congress Watcher

If Senator Hatch really believes that Washington is not the answer, then why has he spent so much time working there, pushing through his agenda for what the federal government should do to solve America’s problems?

Rob Bishop Supports Government Health Care, But Only In Utah

Posted on September 9 2009 by Congress Watcher

Rob Bishop’s own support for government-run, government-funded health care cannot withstand the loose standards upon which Republican attacks against health care reform are founded.

GOP in Congress Soil Themselves With Tar Sands and Oil Shale

Posted on June 13 2008 by Congress Watcher

According to the sponsors of H.R. 6211, the American people are supposed to regard it as an “opportunity” to have big oil corporations come onto our public lands at a bargain basement rate, take whatever wealth they can find, sell it at a huge profit that won’t be shared with the rest of us, and then leave what they found as a scarred, poison wreck of its former self. Sorry, but I don’t see the “opportunity” in that.

Jim Matheson Joins Republicans On Nuclear Weapons Insanity

Posted on July 29 2006 by Congress Watcher

Democrat Jim Matheson joins the Republicans again to support shipping nuclear materials to a country that has weapons of mass destruction

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