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Chris Cannon is one prolific actor, staring in such films as the 2007 release "Booty Bangers" and "Reform School Girls."

OK, so obviously this isn't the conservative congressman from Utah, but a very active porn star. Still, it serves as the most interesting example of other people who hold the same names as Utah's congressional leaders.

Here are some others:

Bob Bennett is also chairman of the Ohio Republican Party.

Jim Matheson covers hockey for The Edmonton Journal in Canada.

Disc jockey Rob Bishop has been "terrorizing the Bay Area for 10 years with uplifting vocals, fat breaks and funky house beats," according to his Web site.

Orrin Hatch is a musician and platinum-record winning songwriter. Wait, that is the same guy. Not surprisingly, we couldn't find another Orrin Hatch.

None of these is as intriguing or as far-fetched as Cannon the porn star though. And Utah's Cannon knows it too.

"I'm sure I am neither as virile nor as handsome as Chris Cannon," said Rep. Chris Cannon. "I don't know if I have ever seen the guy, but I suspect that for whatever parts are attractive in those kind of movies, I probably don't compete."

Yeah, he really said that.

Bishop: Go Steelworkers!

Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, took a moment during a recent congressional hearing on the Crandall Canyon mine disaster to wish good luck to a union boss. Seriously.

During question time, Bishop noted the presence of Utahn Wayne Holland, who was testifying before the committee representing the United Steelworkers Association. Bishop noted that Holland is also the chairman of the Utah Democratic Party.

"I just wanted to wish you a great deal of success in your position with the United Steelworkers," Bishop said. "And if you'd stop right there, I'd be happy about it, too."

Rearranging

the deck chairs

Bishop is a former member of the House Rules Committee who lost his spot when the Democrats took over in January. But that doesn't mean he's not going to rail about the new majority's use of so-called closed rules, a procedural maneuver that prohibits amendments to bills the majority doesn't want.

Last week, Bishop complained about how tweaks made to bills in committee were not appearing in the measures on the floor.

"I realize the Rules Committee is a political type of committee, but it is coming to the point right now when someone says, 'Well, you better go make your case before the Rules Committee,' you simply abandoned all hope," Bishop said on the floor. "It is like being on the Titanic and being told that the ship coming to rescue you is the Lusitania."

Vote early and often

Continuing the Bishop watch, during a debate over voter registration, Bishop admitted a family member's guilt in Chicago-style ballot casting. The Utah Republican said that one of his ancestors was given the day off to vote and he made the best of it.

"He voted in his workplace, took a train and went down to the Capitol and voted a second time, and then went home and wrote about how he voted a third time," Bishop acknowledged. "The reason we have voter registration is to prohibit that today."

No word on whether that train was light-rail and whether the relative was voting in 2002 in the 1st Congressional District.

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* BURR and CANHAM report from Washington for The Tribune. They can be reached at tburr@sltrib.com and mcanham@sltrib.com . For more political tidbits, visit blogs.sltrib.com/utahpolitics.