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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)
- Most often votes with:
- 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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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, ...
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,"
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
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
'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 cannot justify voting for House bill
US Rep. Jim Cooper justifies his vote Saturday to pass the House health-care reform bill by describing the process as a track meet where the baton needs to ...
'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 ...
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 ...
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.
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
State rejects Gillett charter bid
Board member Jim Cooper said the vote was “a tough one for me, being from a rural area, but that's the way the law is now.” Gillett and other small school ...
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 ...
Capitol Hill staffers to talk politics, health care at Lipscomb forum
Lisa Quigley, former Congressional candidate, now chief of staff to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). Linda Peek Schacht, veteran White House and Capitol Hill ...
RE: Jim Cooper
"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 ...
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
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
RE: Jim Cooper
Jim Cooper is a far more seasoned consumer of healthcare campaign contributions. He has been at it since the 1980s. Operating from a “very safe seat” in ...
RE: Jim Cooper
But as Rep. Jim Cooper points out in the interview below, the biggest federal subsidy for private insurance coverage is untouched by Stupak's amendment. ...
Congress must get health-care reform right
The easiest way to understand the health reform debate is to compare it to a track meet, particularly a relay race ...
State Board Denies Request For Dove School
State Board members Jim Cooper and Sherry Burrow cast the dissenting votes on both proposals. Board Chairman Naccaman Williams, a Springdale resident, ...
The Democrats and abortion
You can read this interview Ezra Klein did with Tennessee Democrat Jim Cooper, a moderate and a real healthcare expert, for some light. ...
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