US News -- The Associated Press reported today that Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, may consider voting to legalize Internet gambling so long as residents in Utah would not be able to gamble online. During yesterday's hearing on two Internet gambling bills in the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee in the House of Representatives, Subcommittee Chairman Howard Noble, R-N.C. asked on Cannon's behalf whether Utah residents could be blocked from the activity. The response, from MGM Mirage Online's Bill Hornbuckle, was that his site is able to block 99.9 percent of people from locations where Internet gambling is illegal. Last session, Cannon rejected Rep. Jim Leach's anti-Internet gambling bill because it would have interfered with Utah's ban on gambling. "Anytime you carve something out then you make it legal and that bill would essentially make gambling legal in Utah," he said. "I also have a deep reluctance to mandate what happens in the commercial market, so if we regulate gambling, it's an appropriate way to limit it and preserve the statutes of the state of Utah."