Open Congress : News Articles for Rep. Jim Cooper [D, TN-5]

Blue Dogs want member on fiscal commission

2010-03-10T00:00:00Z

...administration. Blue Dogs have long supported the idea of a commission to help produce a fiscal reform plan. Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) proposed a similar commission that was opposed by Pelosi. House leaders accepted

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TN Reps. Gordon, Tanner may be swing votes for health bill

2010-03-10T00:00:00Z

...House of Representatives passed its version of health reform with only three votes to spare. One of those votes was Congressman Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, who appears likely to stay in that "yes" column. However, two formerly no votes are now identified a

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Will Marshall: Blue Dogs Only Chasing Their Tail

2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

..."pay go" rules that require Congress to offset new spending with tax hikes or budget cuts. And key Blue Dog leaders like Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) have led the charge for a bipartisan commission to get entitlement spending under control. It's vital, though

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America can only be Right: Our $76.4 Trillion Fiscal Gap

2010-03-05T00:00:00Z

...the Treasury Department's 2009 Financial Report of the United States Government, which was described by Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper (Fla.) as “the only report that uses real accounting to describe America’s fiscal problems”: $62 trillion in present

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Lyle Lovett to join Symphony in the Flint Hills

2010-03-03T00:00:00Z

...Lovett to join Symphony in the Flint Hills Jim Cooper Singer Lyle Lovett is photographed in New York on Sept. 11, 2007. (AP Photo/ Jim Cooper) ORG XMIT: NYET386 More News Four-time Grammy winner Lyle Lovett will appear June 12 at the Symphony in the Fli

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Growth essential for tax base

2010-03-02T00:00:00Z

...don't put a nail in the coffin of future growth. I can assure you, without growth, there is no tax base to bond and put infrastructure in or even maintain it. Jim Cooper of Winter Park is past president of the Home Builders Association of Metro Orlando.

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Growth essential for tax base

2010-03-02T00:00:00Z

Obama's Health Care Summit: Tom Harkin, Mike Enzi Debate

2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S health care summit on Thursday saw republicans and democrats coming to an agreement on several points. There was major debate on the health care issue on which both republicans and democrat leaders agreed that the system needs major

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Harvard students lobby alumni lawmakers on Iran

2010-03-01T00:00:00Z

...(D-Wis.), David Vitter (R-La.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.), as well as Reps. John Barrow (D-Ga.), Gerald Connolly (D-Va.), Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), Artur Davis (D-Ala.), John Garamendi (D-Calif.), Jim Himes (D-Conn.), Ron Kind (D-Wis.), Jim Langevin (D-R.I.),

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Vines: State well represented at summit

2010-02-27T00:00:00Z

...the only Republican woman lawmaker at the event. She's the House Republican deputy whip. On the Democratic side, U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper of Shelbyville also was there. Nancy-Ann Min DeParle, a former Roane Countian and first woman elected student body pres

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Rep. Jim Cooper makes remarks at White House health summit

2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

...to address these fundamental problems, because if you love Medicare, you need to act to save it fast. Every day matters. A report will come out issued by the Treasury Department. It's come out every year. It'll come out in the next few days. It's the on

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Lawmakers Invited to Health Care Summit

2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

...R-Wyo. Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn. Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va

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Lawmakers invited to health care summit

2010-02-25T00:00:00Z

A List Of Lawmakers Invited To Health Care Summit

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

Congress-Connections with Toyota

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

...and Mark Souder of Indiana; Reps. John Tierney and Stephen Lynch, D-Mass.; Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas; Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper and Republican Rep. John Duncan Jr. of Tennessee; Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-Ga.; and District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor

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Dems, GOP: Summit will not break logjam on health

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

...to previously announced committee chairmen, to attend: Reps. Rob Andrews of New Jersey, Xavier Becerra of California, Jim Cooper of Tennesse and Louise Slaughter of New York. McConnell tapped GOP senators McCain, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, John Barra

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Memphis immigration court overburdened

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

...the country who hear cases by videoconference. Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper have all asked the Justice Department to create a new immigration court in Nashville to help alleviate the problem....

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A list of lawmakers invited to health care summit

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

Congress-Connections with Toyota

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z

Dems, GOP: Summit will not break logjam on health

2010-02-24T00:00:00Z