Jim Cooper In The News
March 13, 2008 McCain's Plan to Ban `Earmarks' to Get Senate Test (Update1)
Representative Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said he would end his earmark requests because it is time to ``put a stop to ATM politics'' and ``do what's ...
March 13, 2008 Cooper, Corker say no to budget earmarks
by William Thobald Longtime budget reform crusader Rep. Jim Cooper, R-Nashville, pledged Wednesday that he will not ask for any special project money in the ...
March 13, 2008 McCain's Plan to Ban `Earmarks' May Get US Senate Test Today
Representative Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said he would end his earmark requests because it is time to ``put a stop to ATM politics'' and ``do what's ...
March 12, 2008 Lawmakers Exasperated by Capitol Hill Evacuations
That's all I know," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. While caught unaware, Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said every time an evacuation is ordered, it has usually ...
March 12, 2008 Lawmakers Exasperated by Capitol Hill Evacuations
That's all I know," said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. While caught unaware, Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark., said every time an evacuation is ordered, it has usually ...
March 12, 2008 Blue Dogs back Dem budget
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) has forgone earmarks for the year, but other Blue Dogs at Wednesday’s news conference spoke in support of them. ...
March 11, 2008 Roll Call Examines Prospects For Health Care Legislation This Year ...
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.): "The question of mandates is not about whether we should have universal health care, but how to require individuals to buy health ...
March 10, 2008 Vanderbilt welcomes Chancellor Zeppos
Former Nashville Mayor Bill Purcell and US Rep. Jim Cooper were in the crowd, which was a mix of Vanderbilt administrators, faculty, staff and students. ...
March 10, 2008 Report: National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan
... meant to "provoke thoughtful public discussion" on pressing national security issues, said the panel's chairman, Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. ...
March 07, 2008 Report calls for roles and missions debate
And the time is right, said Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., the panel’s chairman. “The winds of change — you can hear them if you’re listening. ...
March 06, 2008 Feds Halt Financing for New Rural Coal Plants
... Congressman Henry Waxman, a California Democrat who chairs the House Government Oversight Committee, and Congressman Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat. ...
March 05, 2008 Senior citizens will lose if Jim Cooper's 'entitlements' plan is ...
Jim Cooper ("President's Medicare Plan still looks like weak remedy," Feb. 29). What Rep. Cooper has proposed is an entitlement task force that lumps ...
March 05, 2008 A Note to the Social Oligarchy
Dave Cooley and Congressman Jim Cooper. Good people all, we’re sure, but these guys have more honorary tchotchkes gathering dust on their office shelves ...
March 04, 2008 US administration reports benefit shortfall totals $45T over next ...
Representative Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said the new report emphasized the need to enact legislation he is supporting that would create a bipartisan commission ...
March 04, 2008 Former foes break bread at governor's mansion
Every living former governor was there, plus brothers Bob and Frank Clement, US Rep. Jim Cooper, assorted relatives of former governors and folks who raised ...
March 04, 2008 Inspectors General Need More Independence
On Oct. 3, 2007, the House passed the Improving Government Accountability Act (HR 928), sponsored by Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), which seeks to enhance the ...
March 03, 2008 Attorney General names Chief Policy Deputy
Harrington, 54, is married to Lisa Quigley, who joined the staff of Congressman Jim Cooper in January. They have two children. His sister is former Davidson ...
March 01, 2008 US Won't Finance Montana Coal Plant
chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) last month asked the RUS for information about its loans ...
February 29, 2008 President's Medicare plan still looks like weak remedy
The best solution probably can be found in a proposal by US Rep. Jim Cooper of Nashville, who advocates a special commission on entitlements like Medicare ...
February 28, 2008 Report says inspectors general lack independence, resources
Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn. Cooper's legislation passed the full House in October 2007, and McCaskill's bill passed the Committee ...
February 26, 2008 House 'Roles and Missions' Panel Report Asks: How Does US Stay No. 1?
Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN), chairman of the seven-member, bipartisan panel empowered to explore issues that cut across House committee jurisdictions, ...
February 26, 2008 Congress: Why should each military branch get same budget?
... been virtually no change in the way the defense budget is carved up in at least 40 years, says Rep. Jim Cooper (D) of Tennessee, who chairs the panel. ...
February 25, 2008 Congress: Why should each military branch get same budget?
Jim Cooper (D) of Tennessee, who chairs the panel. "That right there is a statistical indictment of the process," Representative Cooper says. ...
February 25, 2008 Some Lawmakers Want Federal Funds To Swap Voting Machines
US Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., wrote a letter urging the commission in charge of those funds to change its policy. That group is expected to vote in March on ...
February 23, 2008 Clarksville for Obama MySpace page up; volunteers ready for ...
... and now current Nashville Champaign Manager for Barack Obama, United States Congressman Jim Cooper, and local and statewide union and elected officials. ...
February 22, 2008 People in the News
Inc.; Jim Cooper, Rainscape; Jack Elam, Elam & Sons Painting & Wallcovering; Dannye Hutchings, HTL Fire Protection; Dennis Hutsell, Mangini Associates Inc.; ...
February 22, 2008 Clarksville for Obama MySpace Website Goes Live!
... and now current Nashville Champaign Manager for Barack Obama, United States Congressman Jim Cooper, and local and statewide union and elected officials. ...
February 22, 2008 State may require paper trail for voting
Some members of Congress, including US Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, are pushing to allow the $30 million in existing funds to be used for equipment ...
February 21, 2008 Obama's rebuttal to Clinton
But as my colleague Domenico Montanaro pointed out, Obama finally pulled out the Jim Cooper card -- the Tennessee Democratic congressman whom the Clinton ...
February 21, 2008 Government Still Declares Living Woman Dead
Todd has an appointment with the office of Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) on Friday. In an e-mail, IRS representative Dan Boone said: "The IRS uses data from the ...
