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Rep. Jim Cooper
Democrat • 5th District, Tennessee • 10th Term • Sworn In 1983
- 2 Sponsored Bills (Ranks 414 of 440) 0 Made Into Law (Ranks 37 of 440)
- 86 Co-Sponsored Bills (Ranks 410 of 440) 2 Made Into Law (Ranks 306 of 440)
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- Rep. Mark Schauer
- Rep. Michael Castle
- Least often votes with:
- Rep. Travis Childers
- Rep. John Carter
- Votes with party 87%
- Abstains: 3%
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The Dirty Job That Congress Won’t Do on Its Own
...need, but it could help. Blue Dogs in the U.S. House this week formally endorsed the idea, contained in HR 1557, authored by Rep. Jim Cooper (D, TN) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R, VA), with 100 total sponsors. As noted by Roll Call, “If House Republicans joi
Bipartisan Entitlement Commission Needed to Control Spending and Debt
In the House, the SAFE Commission Act (HR 1557) is sponsored by Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Jim Cooper (D-TN). This bill has also been introduced ...
RE: Jim Cooper
Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee , a leader of the moderate-conservative "Blue Dogs," called the election result "a wake-up call for Congress. ...
Paulson Protege Pellegrini on Bernanke's Fed: "Sheer Lunacy"
Some smart people are feeling at least cautiously optimistic about the US economy at the moment—among them BW's own Jim Cooper. Paolo Pellegrini, however ...
Pelosi defends jail time and fines for those without health insurance
Jim Cooper, Nashville's Democratic House member, voted for Speaker Pelosi's bill. Someone should ask Representative Cooper what he believes is fair.
For your own sake, get screened for cancer
Just ask US Rep. Jim Cooper. He'll tell you about going to Dr. Jeffrey Eskind for a colon examination in 2002 after experiencing something that felt like ...
Congress gets ready to face down swine flu
Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper's spokesman, Peter Boogaard, said Congress is anxious to allay any suspicions that lawmakers or their staffers would use special ...
Rep. Jim Cooper says there's no health-care guarantee in Senate
Rep. Jim Cooper visited with The Tennessean's editorial board last week to talk about health-care reform — from the costs to the states to the effort's ...
Rockettes kick off holiday travel season
"They work so very, very hard," said Rome resident Cynthia Grantham Wright, who had just missed an earlier train with her friend, Jim Cooper, ...
For your own sake, get screened for cancer
...from getting the disease or enable you to get treatments early enough so that cancer isn't a death sentence. Just ask U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper. He'll tell you about going to Dr. Jeffrey Eskind for a colon examination in 2002 after experiencing something tha
Congress gets ready to face down swine flu
...symptoms. He said the office will remain open even if an outbreak occurs because people can work from home. Democratic Rep. Jim Cooper's spokesman, Peter Boogaard, said Congress is anxious to allay any suspicions that lawmakers or their staffers would u
Bredesen versus Cooper--Much Ado About Nothing?
Jim Cooper likes to keep people guessing. By his own admission, he likes to keep his students guessing in their graduate classes at Vanderbilt's Owen School ...
America's Financial Bleeding Has to Stop
This year, he's partnered with Rep. Jim Cooper, a Democrat from Tennessee, to coauthor a bill to create the Securing America's Future Economy Commission. ...
Health-care reform 'still on life support,' Rep. Cooper says
...a good chance of defeat in the Senate, even after surviving a close vote in the House of Representatives last week, Rep. Jim Cooper said Thursday. "If you peel back the layers further, you realize it may be difficult for the Senate to vote on anything,"
RE: Jim Cooper
... even after surviving a close vote in the House of Representatives last week, Rep. Jim Cooper said Thursday. "If you peel back the layers further, ...
Health-care reform 'still on life support,' Rep. Cooper says
... even after surviving a close vote in the House of Representatives last week, Rep. Jim Cooper said Thursday. "If you peel back the layers further, ...
My Word: Just take a deep breath
It has been quite interesting these past few years and especially the past two to three years reading the various blogs, editorial comments ...
Wood: Industries considering area
In the 1980s and early 1990s, he worked for US Rep. Jim Cooper when Cooper represented the Fourth District, which included Shelbyville. ...
Health reform on life support
...come together on the Senate side, the abortion fight on the House side is threatening passage of any final compromise. Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), a Blue Dog who voted for the bill last weekend, said reform is still on life support, according to an
'America is going broke,' says Rep. Frank Wolf
This year, he and Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, coauthored legislation to create the Securing America's Future Economy Commission Act. It would ...
Why Health Care Reform is Going to the Dogs
Jim Cooper of Tennessee, the Blue Dog whom I identified in my piece in The New York Review as being among the most knowledgeable legislators in the House on ...
Cooper didn't pass the baton; he passed the buck
With his vote in favor of government-run health care on Saturday, Rep. Jim Cooper let down not just his constituents here in Middle Tennessee, ...
Capitol Hill staffers to talk politics, health care at Lipscomb forum
...Frasier, chief of staff to Rep. Lincoln Davis (D-TN). Lisa Quigley, former Congressional candidate, now chief of staff to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). Linda Peek Schacht, veteran White House and Capitol Hill communication official, former communications di
Centrist Dems: Create A Panel To Save Budget
...its budget problems through the normal course of business. "The decision-making process in Congress is broken," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. "We need this decision-forcing mechanism to do the right thing for the country." The White House has said getti
'Jingle' rings in the season at Oh Canada Eh
The show stars Oh Canada Eh? regulars Melissa Penner, Jim Cooper, Brenda Snyder, Martin Knauer, Jean-Francois Grenier, Stacy Chamberlain, Pierre-Charles ...
The Democratic Calamity Club
Think of David McCurdy and Jim Cooper, two up-and-coming moderate Democratic congressmen who bet that 1994 was the year to try for the Senate: They were ...
RE: Jim Cooper
Think of David mccurdy and Jim Cooper, two up-and-coming moderate Democratic congressmen who bet that 1994 was the year to try for the Senate: They were ...
On tackling debt: Some say 'Just do it'
"We need this decision-forcing mechanism to do what's right for the country," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. One reason for the push to form a commission by ...
Passing Bill As Bad As PelosiCare Quite An Achievement For Dems
...opposes it, as do most House members. Pelosi got a majority of the House to vote for it anyway. Some moderate Democrats, like Rep. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, fear the enormous cost, but voted aye just to keep the process moving. More important, some 40 pr
Davis votes against health-reform bill
Democrats Steve Cohen of Memphis and Jim Cooper of Nashville were the only representatives in Tennessee to vote for the bill.
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