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Utahns honor Veterans Day and those who served their country
11/12/13Taylorsville The sights and sounds of America surrounded the modern Taylorsville City Hall on a glorious Veterans Day morning Monday.< Read more > -
Matheson has a way out of the shutdown
10/04/13It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. And, as long as Congress refuses to do its job and vote to spend the money necessary to run the federal government, people will get hurt.< Read more > -
Utah's Matheson joins bipartisan group seeking shutdown end
10/03/13Rep. Jim Matheson is joining a bipartisan effort to end the government shutdown and Washington gridlock, urging congressional leaders to pass a six-month budget and get back to work on America's pressing issues.< Read more > -
Utahns in Congress skeptical of Syria plan
09/11/13Washington President Barack Obama persuaded House Republican leaders Tuesday to back his plan for missile strikes against the Syrian regime for allegedly using chemical weapons against its own people.< Read more > -
Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson Joins "No Labels"
07/18/13Utah Democratic Congressman Jim Matheson has joined a growing list of Republicans and Democrats in the No Labels Congressional Problem Solvers Coalition. Former Utah Governor John Huntsman Junior is co-chair of No Labels. Matheson says joining this group< Read more > -
Matheson joining effort to end D.C. gridlock
07/18/13A group of 80 lawmakers, including Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, have announced a bipartisan slate of bills to improve government efficiency.< Read more > -
Matheson says No Labels a way to get work done in Congress
07/18/13Rep. Jim Matheson, the state's sole Democratic member of Congress, said Thursday that doing away with political labels is the way to get work done in Washington, D.C.< Read more > -
Student loan interest rate now 6.8 percent
07/08/13Federal Stafford Loan (student loan) interest rates rose to 6.8 percent July 1, because the U.S. Senate was unable to come to an agreement on a bill passed by the House of Representatives, making Congress unable to come to a compromise by its June 30 dead< Read more > -
Veterans' disability claims piled up fast in Salt Lake City
06/28/13Walt Youse died before the Department of Veterans Affairs could decide whether to compensate him for his World War II disabilities: shrapnel in his shoulder and foot troubles stemming from the jungle rot he suffered in Japan.< Read more > -
Congress contemplating small tweaks to help small businesses weather health care reform
06/27/13An effort to repeal a tax on insurance companies in the new healthcare reform law is gaining momentum in Congress, fueled by concerns that the fee would hit small businesses particularly hard.< Read more > -
Students caught in the crossfire as Congress debates college loan rates
06/26/13Washington » Satin Tashnizi has already had to compromise on her future. Financial obstacles have chipped away at the 18-year-old's dream, and unless Congress takes action in the next week to prevent a big jump in student loan interest rates, it may j< Read more > -
House passes Matheson pharmacy bill
06/04/13Washington The House of Representatives passed a bill Monday meant to add new protections against counterfeit pharmaceuticals, an idea Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, has worked on for years.< Read more > -
Matheson Backs Drug ID Bill
06/04/13A bill that could make it harder to sell fake or stolen prescription drugs passed the U.S. House of Representatives this week. Utah 4th District Congressman Jim Matheson is a co-sponsor of HR 1919, which would require a product identifier code on every< Read more > -
Huntsman to help launch monthly radio show
05/13/13Rep. Jim Matheson will join former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is helping to launch a monthly radio show aimed at helping bridge the deep political divide in Washington.< Read more > -
Health insurance tax scares the daylights' out of some small-business owners
05/12/13"Insurers have confirmed back to me that the tax will be passed down to consumers, and the direct impact will be staggering," Ryan Thorn, owner of a small insurance planning firm near Salt Lake City, told lawmakers during a congressional hearing Thursday.< Read more > -
GOP chairman promises drug-tracking law by August
04/25/13A powerful House chairman vowed Thursday to put legislation on President Obama's desk that would give regulators more power to track prescription drugs. Lawmakers on Thursday examined a draft bill from Reps. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Jim Matheson (D-Uta< Read more > -
Congress introduces bill to curb Stafford Loan rate hike
04/23/13For the past few years, subsidized Stafford Loans for undergraduate students have been at a low interest rate of 3.4?percent, thanks to the College Cost Reduction and Access Act, which Congress passed in 2007 to lower the rate from 6.8?percent. The rate i< Read more > -
Utah's Jim Matheson backs extending Violence Against Women Act
02/28/13The House approved an extension of the Violence Against Women Act, the nation's landmark anti-domestic violence law, accepting on Thursday the version pushed by Democrats in the Senate, which included new protections for the gay community and Native< Read more > -
Utah reps. frustrated at potential $85B federal budget cuts
02/27/13Utah's congressional delegation reacted strongly Wednesday to the looming sequester deadline that would trigger $85 billion in automatic cuts to the federal budget< Read more > -
Matheson wants Congress in D.C., working hard
02/27/13Rep. Jim Matheson says Utahns want members of Congress to work longer hours and spend more time in D.C. to solve the nation's fiscal challenges.< Read more > -
Utah N-waste site backers call it quits
12/23/12Plans to store the nation's high-level reactor waste in Utah are officially dead. The consortium of utility companies behind the idea has asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to scrap its license for a 100-acre parking lot for radioactive w< Read more > -
Feds still on the hunt for high-level, N-waste storage
12/11/12Lingering interest Whether Utah might still be in the running for a new site is unclear at this point. But the legal wrangling about the Skull Valley site isn't over. And Skull Valley Chairwoman Lori Bear says discussions are ongoing with the In< Read more > -
Matheson opposes Pelosi, wants new Dem leader
11/15/12Washington Rep. Jim Matheson has lost faith in Nancy Pelosi's leadership of the House Democrats and his party's modest gains in the recent election haven't changed that.< Read more > -
Utah Senate leader rages at lax nuke waste oversight
09/12/12Senate President Mike Waddoups, R-Taylorsville, flayed state regulators for their tepid response to new reports by the Legislative Auditor General's Office that suggested the state relies too heavily on others – including the regulated companie< Read more > -
Slap to Obama: GOP House votes to kill health law; Matheson among 5 Democrats to join
07/11/12WASHINGTON – Pressing an election-year point, Republicans pushed yet another bill through the House on Wednesday to repeal the nation's two-year-old health care law, a maneuver that forced Democrats to choose between President Barack Obama's< Read more > -
Congress takes up Utah land bill
06/19/12Utah will swap mineral rights with the Ute Indians in a land exchange that advanced in Congress.< Read more > -
House strips medical device tax from health-care law
06/08/12Washington The House moved Thursday to strike a new tax on medical devices before it goes into effect, the latest attempt in a persistent campaign to remove this funding source from President Barack Obama's signature health-reform law.< Read more > -
Along a Utah Range, a New Skirmish Over Development or Conservation
05/29/12The competing bill, the Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act, was created after two years of public meetings and was introduced by Representative Jim Matheson, a Democrat who represents the area.< Read more > -
Cleanup of uranium waste near Moab will slow, which concerns lawmakers
04/29/12Last week Matheson wrote to Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the pace and cost-effectiveness of the agency's current strategy for the cleanup. He noted that the job won't be done until 2029 at the current rate.< Read more > -
Matheson Presses Energy Dept. on Moab Tailings Cleanup Slowdown
04/25/12(KCPW News) Utah Congressman Jim Matheson is pressing the Department of Energy on a five-year contract it awarded last year for the removal of 3.1 million tons of radioactive mill tailings from the Moab Tailings Project Site along the Colorado River< Read more > -
Editorial: Moab tailings
04/23/12Deseret News editorial calls for maintaining progress on radioactive tailings cleanup on the Colorado River near Moab.< Read more > -
Wasatch wilderness
04/02/12Rep. Jim Matheson has a goal to protect critical watershed in the Wasatch canyons above the Salt Lake Valley, and to that end has resurrected wilderness-designation legislation that ignited intense debate in 2010< Read more > -
Ute land swap
03/23/12It's so seldom these days that Democratic and Republican members of Congress, environmentalists, and state and federal land managers agree on anything, so that when it happens the phenomenon demands attention.< Read more > -
Bill to exchange tribal land earns plaudits
03/22/12Washington A measure that would preserve Ute Indian lands while opening up other areas in Utah for oil and gas exploration appears to be winning over environmentalists, tribal officials and land managers.< Read more > -
New contractor to take over Moab uranium cleanup
03/06/12A new contractor is set to take over the uranium-mill cleanup near Moab by the end of the month.< Read more > -
Rep. Jim Matheson says Congress won't be addressing immigration any time soon
02/22/12SALT LAKE CITY – The nation cannot abide a "patchwork" of 50 different state immigration laws but U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson says it is unlikely Congress will take on the issue of comprehensive immigration reform any time soon.< Read more > -
Utah's nisei vets honored for faithfulness to unfaithful country
02/19/12Ted Shimizu, a World War II veteran who had a hand in earning the Congressional Gold Medal and was honored at a luncheon Saturday, was thinking, instead, of his fellow Japanese-American soldiers who lost their lives in Europe.< Read more > -
Matheson backs energy development in telephone town hall'
02/03/12Rep. Jim Matheson joined a Republican counterpart from Colorado on Thursday evening on a "telephone town hall" calling for easier development of oil, gas and oil shale in the West.< Read more > -
Utah leaders honor victims of Nevada nuclear testing
01/28/12SALT LAKE CITY – People exposed to radiation because of nuclear weapons testing in Nevada were honored Friday with a ceremony at the Utah State Capitol.< Read more > -
Protesters assail, state defends blended radioactive waste
01/11/12Call it the fable of letting the camel's nose into the radioactive tent. It's the notion that, if the state sticks with its plan to allow blended radioactive waste to continue coming into Utah, then still more too-hot waste is sure to follow and U< Read more > -
Spending Dancers to use $25,000 to teach kids about pollution and environment.
12/15/11Rep. Jim Matheson is joining Rep. Rob Bishop in questioning a $25,000 EPA grant to the Repertory Dance Theatre to fund a dance program to teach Salt Lake schoolchildren about pollution and the environment.< Read more > -
Area Lawmakers React; Matheson, Lee express concerns over debt panel's lack of consensus
11/23/11U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, said he was "very disappointed" with the failed congressional debt "supercommittee" Tuesday while visiting St. George and Cedar City to donate money to Southern Utah charities.< Read more > -
Utah Congress members back easing weapons restrictions
11/17/11A proposal, passed by the U.S. House on Wednesday, would allow a person with a Utah concealed weapons permit to carry a gun in California, New York, and just about every other state, whether officials there liked it or not.< Read more > -
Utah officials pan Interior proposals for Utah wilderness
11/10/11The Interior Department on Thursday urged Congress to preserve several hundred thousand acres of public land in southeastern Utah as wilderness, an idea that brought a swift rebuke from Utah's federal delegation.< Read more > -
Salazar: Desolation Canyon should be protected as wilderness
11/10/11Desolation, Westwater and Mill Creek canyons in Utah's Grand County are among 18 backcountry areas Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said merit wilderness protections by Congress.< Read more > -
Utah leaders aim to delay Hill Air Force Base consolidation
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Rep. Jim Matheson fears slowdown in uranium cleanup
11/06/11A new contract for cleaning up the uranium mill tailings cleanup outside of Moab brings in an Idaho company to replace lead contractor EnergySolutions, Inc., and Rep. Jim Matheson says it will also mean a dramatic slowdown of work at the site.< Read more > -
Moab uranium tailings cleanup gets national award
10/31/11The uranium tailings cleanup outside of Moab was honored last week with a U.S. Department of Energy Secretary's Achievement Award. The award, presented by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., recognized the cleanup's< Read more > -
St. George Spectrum: Students impress Matheson
10/20/11Seventh-graders meet with U.S. Representative< Read more > -
Opposing View: Return Foreign Earnings to USA
10/13/11Jim Matheson - Mike Ross response on Freedom to Invest Act< Read more > -
Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: Nuclear Storage
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Matheson: Focus shifted after attacks
09/11/11Washington Rep. Jim Matheson huddled in his Capitol Hill office eyeing television images of the burning twin towers until he heard a police officer rushing through the hallway screaming for everyone to evacuate.< Read more > -
Foreign earnings tax break could add 2.9 million jobs, study says
09/07/11A huge one-time tax break to lure back some of the approximately $1.4 trillion in earnings held abroad by U.S. companies would produce nearly 3 million jobs over two years, according to a study released Wednesday by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.< Read more > -
Matheson Weighs in on Upcoming Speech, Clean Air Rules
09/06/11(KCPW News) As the business sector anticipates President Obama's job creation speech to Congress Thursday night, Democratic Utah Representative Jim Matheson is hoping to see some specific plans. But how much of an impact can a speech, or the federal g< Read more > -
Rep. Jim Matheson seeks tax break for American companies doing business overseas
09/06/11WASHINGTON – When President Barack Obama talks to the nation about the economy Thursday, a Utah congressman will be listening for one of his own proposals to grow the private sector and encourage jobs.< Read more > -
Matheson fears high-level N-waste could head to Utah
08/17/11The plan to store thousands of tons of nuclear waste in Utah's west desert could again surface after a federal panel suggested finding a temporary home for the spent fuel now piling up at reactors across the country.< Read more > -
Blue Dogs urge supercommittee members to forge bipartisan dea
08/12/11The Blue Dog Coalition is urging the newly formed congressional debt-reduction panel to work together toward a bipartisan agreement.< Read more > -
Utah delegation shuns compromise, fears tea party
08/07/11Whew!" or "Dang!" – readers can choose their response (or worse) to passage of the debt ceiling compromise. The measure passed handily, but without much help from Utah's congressional delegation. Only Rep. Jim Matheson supported it. That raises some interesting questions.< Read more > -
Proud of Matheson
08/04/11Rep. Rob Bishop boasted last week that it was time to forge a workable compromise on the debt-ceiling crisis ("Bishop takes his own road on debt-crisis talks," Tribune, July 31). When I read that report, I thought: Bully for Bishop! Finally, we have a Uta< Read more > -
The moderate middle wins the day
08/01/11For weeks, the debt-ceiling debate has been defined by a clash of the extremes; tea party conservatives seeking to dramatically reshape government and committed liberals afraid that doing so would squeeze the poor and the working class.< Read more > -
Utah lawmakers pass 'Cut, Cap, and Balance' legislation
07/20/11WASHINGTON - On Tuesday, the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cut, Cap, and Balance Act of 2011, in an attempt to address the growing financial concerns with federal spending and the concern over raising the nation's debt< Read more > -
Major natural gas development in Uintah Basin could mean up to 4,000 jobs
06/09/11A major natural gas development in the Uintah Basin that could create more than 4,000 jobs over the life of the project moved closer to reality Thursday following the announcement of a plan to mitigate air quality impacts of developing more than 3,675 nat< Read more >