Rep. Jim Cooper

Democrat  •  5th District, Tennessee  •  10th Term  •  Sworn In 1983
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
  • Votes with party 87%
  • Abstains: 3%

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11/24/09
Give Us Liberty: Kevin Brady's scathing call for Timothy Geithner ...

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/24/09
MOTU ships new HDX-SDI video interface for Mac and Windows | The ...

Jim Cooper November 24th, 2009. HDX-SDI video interface. CAMBRIDGE, MA — Tuesday, November 24, 2009. MOTU is now shipping the HDX-SDI video interface for Mac and Windows ($895). With the blazing speed of PCI Express, the HDX-SDI turns a ...

11/24/09
Give Us Liberty: Oh my! Another Commie in Congress!...

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/24/09
Tennessee Republican Party |

While the task force's recommendations should give women pause, Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn has put the spotlight on a disturbing portion of House Democrats' health care legislation relating to the task force's study. ... Jim Co

11/24/09
Jay's Smokers Rights Blog: How to FAX the Senators

Jim Cooper (D-5) Fax: 202-226-1035. Rep. Bart Gordon (D-6) Fax: 202-225-6887. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-7) Fax: 202-225-3004. Rep. John Tanner (D-8) Fax: 202-225-1765. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-9) Fax: 202-225-5663 ...

11/24/09
Matthew Yglesias » Larson, Rangel, Murtha, Frank Join Obey's War ...

Awesome — let' see how centrists like Jim Cooper and Mike Castle respond. zic Says: November 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am. Andy, I understand what you're suggesting, and agree with your date for a war tax. But many members of the military are ...

11/23/09
Give Us Liberty: Health Care Reform Support for Health Care Plan ...

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/23/09
“Debating Obama's Health Care Reform”

... Associate Professor of Health Care Management, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management • Rep. Jim Cooper, Adjunct Professor of Health Care Management, Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management; Congressman for … ...

Source: Medical Rag
11/22/09
Sunday Open Thread - Jack & Jill Politics

22) - Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a .... One was Congressma

11/22/09
Give Us Liberty: And here we have a Communista from California...

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/20/09
Rep. Jim Cooper is Nothing but a Washington Politician

I have listened to Jim Cooper talk about the health care plans the past several weeks. He claims to be a “Blue Dog” Democrat, based on principal and fiscal conservatism, but in the end whether it is the stimulus plan, the budget or healthcare he falls

11/20/09
The 50 Elephants in the Room | 73 Wire

TN's Governor Phil Bredesen opposes the bill even as TN 05 Representative Jim Cooper votes in favor of it in the House. Gov. Phil Bredesen continues to earn praise from members of the National Federation of Independent Business for ...

Source: 73 Wire
11/20/09
GOP leaders pressed lone 'yes' vote Burgess to reject Medicare ...

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) is a physician and longtime advocate for permanently solving the annual legislative headache of increasing the amount of money reimbursed to doctors treating Medicare patients. .... Dan Boren (Ind.), Jim Cooper (Tenn.), Chet

Source: Top News
11/19/09
Dru's Vues, too: Cooper: Save, don't spend

Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN) today announced the launch of the bipartisan Congressional Savings and Ownership Caucus, along with Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND) and Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA). The Caucus, organized in ...

11/19/09
Rep. Jim Cooper is Nothing but a Washington Politician

I have listened to Jim Cooper talk about the health care plans the past several weeks. He claims to be a “Blue Dog” Democrat, based on principal and fiscal conservatism, but in the end whether it is the stimulus plan, the budget or ...

11/19/09
Jim Cooper Is Busy : Post Politics: Political News and Views in ...

I think both of you will be in a different district by 2012, but I share your frustration with Rep. Cooper's lack of direct contact with his constituents, and I live about a mile and a half from him. But the both the Wilson County and ...

11/19/09
Give Us Liberty

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/18/09
Give Us Liberty: Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Constitutional ...

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/18/09
Ignoring several prior Hardball guests, Matthews let Stupak ...

That would be the biggest expansion of anti-choice laws in my entire career. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN): Stupak "went beyond the Hyde amendment." From the November 9 edition of Hardball [accessed from the Nexis database]: ...

11/17/09
Lamar Calls Out Medicare Expansion : Post Politics: Political News ...

Health care policy professor and Rep. Jim Cooper says (Tennessean, Nov. 15 2009)the Feds now pay 67 percent of Tennessee's Medicaid bills. Cooper also says the Feds will pay 91 percent of the Medicaid expansion. What a deal! ...

11/17/09
Donkeylicious: House Freshmen Report Card

These are reps who are dealmakers like Jim Cooper, (who's slightly to the right of his Nashville-based district), or have such liberal districts it's simply hard to get to their left (Lloyd Doggett in Austin). ...

11/17/09
For those of you scoring at home

Rep. Collin Peterson of MN voted for cap-and-trade but did vote against the stimulus and the health care bills. These are the ones Heritage identifies who supported Obama on all three bills: Leonard Boswell of Iowa, Jim Cooper of ...

Source: True North
11/17/09
Give Us Liberty

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/17/09
Congressional Savings and Ownership Caucus Launches and Pew Releases a Paper on Savings

...savings and assets for all Americans, particularly those with lower incomes and fewer resources. The CSOC is Co-Chaired by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), and Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA). The Asset Building Program has

11/17/09
Endicott Peabody, Wyatt Earp & Faith : The Pink Flamingo

Jim Cooper, United States Representative from Tennessee Erastus Corning II, mayor of Albany, New York Sy Cromwell, 1964 Olympic silver medalist in rowing. Laurence Curtis, United States Representative from Massachusetts ...

11/17/09
Jim Cooper: Lap Dog : Post Politics: Political News and Views in ...

The lap dogs of big government who voted for all three of the Obama bills were Leonard Boswell of Iowa, Jim Cooper of Tennessee, Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona, Baron Hill of Indiana, Dennis Moore of Kansas, Patrick Murphy of ...

11/17/09
Give Us Liberty: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/17/09
Jim Cooper: Blue Dog or lap dog? « In Session: Tennessee Politics

Wall Street Journal editorial board member Stephen Moore calls out U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper as a “lap dog of big government” in an op-ed published this afternoon. Citing research by the Heritage Foundation, Moore says all but four members ...

11/16/09
Give Us Liberty: Freedom Tower in NYC Going UP

JIM COOPER D TN-5* Rep. KATHLEEN DAHLKEMPER D PA-3* Rep. JOE SESTAK D PA-7* Rep. RAYMOND GREEN D TX-29* Rep. MARY JO KILROY D OH-15* Rep. MAURICE HINCHEY D NY-22* Rep. SHELLEY BERKLEY D NV-1* Rep. MARTIN HEINRICH D NM-1* Rep. ...

11/16/09
A Penigma - a mystery, under a pseudonym: Coat Hangers: the Symbol ...

Representative Jim Cooper, Tennessee - (District 5); Representative Jim Costa, California - (District 20); Representative Artur Davis, Alabama - (District 7); Representative Bob Etheridge, North Carolina - (District 2); Representative ...

Official website: http://cooper.house.gov/
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1536 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-4311
Fax: 202-226-1035

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