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May 29, 2008 A Big Pulle Party

Pith’s own Bruce Barry was in attendance rocking a ratty pair of jeans and a gray sweatshirt—his standard uniform—as was former Scene hitman Jim Spragens, who now toils for Rep. Jim Cooper and probably was the best-looking guy in the ...

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May 29, 2008 Shocked, I Am Shocked

When long-time senior Hill staffers told her that she was making a dreadful mistake by fighting with rather than reaching out to John Breaux and Jim Cooper, she told them that they did not understand the wave of popular political ...

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May 29, 2008 City Council Report: May 28

Council Member Jim Cooper, however, cautioned that harder times might be ahead. “I don’t think we should puff out our chests, because our time may come,” Cooper said. In a move to make Elk Grove a charter city, the council appointed ...

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May 28, 2008 Hoyer defends pay-go strategy on GI bill

Hoyer defends pay-go strategy on GI bill Posted by admin May 28, 2008 Hoyer defends pay-go strategy on GI bill By Jared Allen Posted: ... is a classic example of something we’d love to do if it were paid for, Rep

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May 28, 2008 It’s Not Really That Funny

Anne Schroeder of the Politico shares a congressional fun fact with her readers:. What do you think budget expert Rep. Jim Cooper drives around? A Mini Cooper! Cracks us up.

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May 28, 2008 Shame on Senator Obama

And it means, as the department points out, that the government could owe billions in subsidy payments to these big farmers if and when prices dip again. John McCain and my own Congressman Jim Cooper voted against this embarrassment.

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May 28, 2008 Bright & Early: A Different Perspective Edition

He is also the former chief-of-staff to our own US Representative Jim Cooper. Free bus rides. Some employers are taking matters into their own hands to help us out with the rising cost of our commutes. Vanderbilt, Belmont, and state ...

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May 27, 2008 The Sky is Falling

This morning, the monthly gathering young of young (and young at heart) Nashville progressives called the Kitchen Cabinet, was treated to a presentation by Rep. Jim C

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May 27, 2008 Liberadio(!) Podcast: May 05, 2008 Summary: Tomas Young from Phil ...

(21:02 33.7MB); Interview with Congressman Jim Cooper - There’s so much to talk about - Lawrence Lessig’s Change Congress initiative, earmarks, FISA, his Inspector General bill, election integrity - that we make the congressman late for ...

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May 27, 2008 Hinote Hospitalized

Ken Whitehouse reports that Greg Hinote, Nashville’s Deputy Mayor and former chief of staff to Congressman Jim Cooper, was hospitalized earlier today following a bicycling accident.

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May 27, 2008 Corporate Money and Obama

Jim Cooper, Obama's healthcare spokesperson s in the pocket of health care providers & insurance companines. Jim Cooper was the one who was actively involved in derailing Hillary's healthcare reforms in the 90's. From A NYT 1994 article ...

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May 27, 2008 Coop For Strongman

Sean Braisted, after listening to a presentation given by Congressman Jim Cooper, notes the correlation between our system of government and our economic problems:. Perhaps this is a problem inherent within a democratic republic. ...

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May 26, 2008 Targeted Campaigning

Rick Boucher of Virginia and Jim Cooper of Tennessee. It will be really fascinating to look at where Obama campaigns and compare it to his performance in the primaries. He's going to be in Nevada tomorrow and he's campaigning in Las ...

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May 25, 2008 News - Pakistan feels pressure over al-Qaeda

Democratic Congressman Jim Cooper from Tennessee asked of the tribal areas: “Is this a Motel 6 for terrorists?” According to Daniel Markey, a former Department of State official and now with the Council on Foreign Relations, ...

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May 25, 2008 House Overrides Bush's Veto on Farm Bill

Of course a handful of the most craven and repulsive Blue Dogs stuck with Bush on this-- as with everything-- especially Melissa Bean (IL), Jim Matheson (UT), Jim Cooper (TN), and Jane Harman (CA). The House needs a two-thirds majority ...

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May 24, 2008 Wow! John Rodgers and the City Paper

City Paper reporter John Rodgers wrote a solid piece this week on the backtracking of the General Assembly on ethics this session, despite Tennessee Waltz and the Jim Cooper scandal. Too much attention in the local news media has been ...

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May 24, 2008 Give Me a Break

“What we’re really talking about here is war profiteering,” said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., citing a committee memorandum that suggests leading insurers overestimated the risk faced by contractors in Iraq to win profits far exceeding ...

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May 23, 2008 Acorn auctions carter

Tennessean Color me a San Francisco values-ist, but if being attacked for wanting to saddle up alongside Cowboy Joe and join the San Francisco way of life, count me in! And props for the Republican National Chairman for okaying such a. Tennessean www.te

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May 23, 2008 Fielding A Moral Dilemma: Jewish Values and the 2008 Farm Bill

We were joined by four members of Congress from different faiths, including Representatives Keith Ellison, Raul Grijalva, Chris Van Hollen and Jim Cooper. Participants forged new partnerships and created new mobilizing structures that ...

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May 22, 2008 How They Voted on the Farm Bill

Pleased to see voting against the bill in defiance of his own party is my own representative, Congressman Jim Cooper. Representative Cooper is a Democrat. If the next time we have a senatorial election in Tennessee, Democrat Jim Cooper ...

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May 21, 2008 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama should not run on the same ticket ...

"I think you’d have to go for a fresh face"

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May 20, 2008 Coop Floats Nunn For Veep

“I think you’d have to go for a fresh face,” said Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), an Obama supporter, adding that it would make sense for Obama to choose from among the party’s “wide range of experienced foreign policy and national secu

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May 19, 2008 'Opry' fights potential wireless interference

US Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, co-sponsored a resolution in the House that urges protection of existing broadband devices but would not set any legal safeguards. "Innovation is great — it drives our economy. ...

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May 19, 2008 Monday May 19, 2008 - Do not separate text from historical ...

“We’ve been through this rodeo before.” – Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) predicting the Senate would choose not to pay for an expanded GI bill that was added to an emergency war funding bill. weekly wastebasket at www.taxpayer.net ...

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May 19, 2008 Payback Time for Clinton

[Tennessee Congressman Jim] Cooper, whose history with Clinton was described in a book years ago, said he was worried when the matter was revived in a newspaper column in February that his Democratic colleagues would chastise him for ...

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May 19, 2008 As Clinton chances wane, old slights come due (Susan Milligan ...

As Clinton chances wane, old slights come due — Some prominent Democrats recall past grievances — WASHINGTON - When Democratic superdelegate Jim Cooper, a Tennessee congressman, pondered the choice between Hillary Clinton and Barack ...

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May 19, 2008 Payback Time for Clinton

[Tennessee Congressman Jim] Cooper, whose history with Clinton was described in a book years ago, said he was worried when the matter was revived in a newspaper column in February that his Democratic colleagues would chastise him for ...

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May 19, 2008 What goes up ...

One of them was Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee who had a compromise health care plan that had bi-partisan support but was stopped dead by Hillary who, according to Cooper, set up a "war room" with the specific purpose of defeating any and ...

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May 18, 2008 As Clinton chances wane, old slights come due - Boston Globe

WASHINGTON - When Democratic superdelegate Jim Cooper, a Tennessee congressman, pondered the choice between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, his thoughts wandered back to 1993. Ky. gears up for decisive vote Henderson Gleaner ...

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May 18, 2008 With Hillary Waning, Old Slights Come Due

By Susan MilliganBOSTON GLOBE - When Democratic superdelegate Jim Cooper, a Tennessee congressman, pondered the choice between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, his thoughts wandered back to 1993. That year, Clinton was trying to change ...

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