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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03/07/07
A soldier's story

Cooper Brannan, who served in Iraq and lost part of his hand, is fighting other young stars to make the Padres rotation. A soldier's story Cooper Brannan, ...

Source: NBCSports.com
03/07/07
Boomtown once more

The loss of job opportunities — Cooper Tire is shutting down in the next few months, and another plant closed down recently. There goes your population.” ...

Source: Arkansas Times, AR
03/06/07
PV's Cooper to serve as assistant for USA women's U19 team

Second-year Prairie View A&M University head women’s basketball coach Cynthia Cooper has been selected as one of two assistant coaches for the 2007 USA ...

Source: Houston Chronicle, TX
03/06/07
Guardian Unlimited: News blog

Photograph: Jim Cooper/APIt takes something to unite all three Republican presidential candidates in defence of one of their prospective Democrat opponents. ...

Source: Guardian Unlimited, UK
03/06/07
TVA studies options for saving power

Jim Cooper, a Nashville Democrat, about the cost of power conservation efforts, Kilgore said conservation programs are less than one-third the cost of ...

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN
03/06/07
The Daily Muck

Jim Gibbons in November, when he was dealing with brewing legal cases including a woman's claim he assaulted her, wasn't sanctioned by a House Committee ...

Source: TPMmuckraker, NY
03/05/07
Nine Nineties in Nine

Before the Cooper Union event I was walking in mid-town Manhattan near 44th and 6th Ave. on my way to pre-tape an interview with Dr. Jim Dobson for Focus on ...

Source: Human Events, DC
03/05/07
Cooper elected VP of prosecutors association

By JIM WILLIAMSON. ASHDOWN, Ark.—Ninth Judicial District Prosecuting Attorney Tom Cooper was recently elected as vice president of the Arkansas Prosecuting ...

Source: Texarkana Gazette, TX
03/05/07
From the weekend: Uproar over Coulter

(File photo of Coulter by Jim Cooper of the AP.) "I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, ...

Source: MSNBC
03/04/07
Mistrial sought in federal capital case

Mr. Gooch, 27, is accused of carrying out the fatal shootings of Yolanda Miller and her boyfriend, Calvin Cooper, on Feb. 21, 2003. Prosecutors said he shot ...

Source: Washington Times, DC
03/04/07
Ravenstahl easily tops Peduto for party nod

She lost to Rachel Cooper, 22, of Homewood, a recent Howard University graduate and the daughter of District Judge Kevin Cooper. ...

Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
03/03/07
More clout for corruption fighters

When I put a question along those lines to state Attorney General Roy Cooper, he declined to answer directly, in view of "things that are ongoing. ...

Source: News & Observer
03/02/07
More than 100 attend Madison chamber crime awareness meeting

With government representatives in attendance (Rip Ryman, Jim Forkum and Michael Craddock, councilmen; Don Deering from Congressman Jim Cooper's office; ...

Source: Dickson Herald, TN
03/02/07
Tennessee Democrats among most conservative in US House

John Tanner, D-Union City; Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Murfreesboro; and Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tennessee. All were included in the publication's grouping of ...

Source: Clarksville Leaf Chronicle, TN
03/02/07
More than 100 attend Madison chamber crime awareness meeting

With government representatives in attendance (Rip Ryman, Jim Forkum and Michael Craddock, councilmen; Don Deering from Congressman Jim Cooper's office; ...

Source: The Tennessean, TN
03/01/07
Elk Grove attorney out

But Mayor Jim Cooper and, to a lesser extent, Councilman Michael Leary had expressed frustration with the advice they had received from Manzanetti. ...

Source: Sacramento Bee, CA
03/01/07
BERNANKE WINS praise for response to market volatility.

Rep. Jim Cooper praises Bernanke for a "steady hand" at the central bank. Treasury's Paulson, on the job less than a year, spoke by phone with Bush but ...

Source: Wall Street Journal (subscription), NY
03/01/07
Thursday, March 1, 2006, at the North Carolina General Assembly

COOPER SPEAKS: Attorney General Roy Cooper asked a Senate committee to approve legislation that toughens penalties for child pornographers and requires ...

Source: Myrtle Beach Sun News
02/28/07
Inspector General: State should demand repayment of misspent grants

The scathing 75-page report is the second Inspector General Mary Jane Cooper has issued in three months about improprieties involving the state Division of ...

Source: Newark Star Ledger, NJ
02/28/07
Crop Formations

Both scientists and alternative energy activists have sounded enough alarms to gain the attention of at least one US Congressman, Jim Cooper of Nashville. ...

Source: Business Tennessee, TN
02/28/07
Bernanke calls on Congress to look at entitlements

"Our problem here is lighting a fire under some of our colleagues to get the tough decisions made," Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said at the hearing.

Source: The Hill, DC
02/27/07
Drive-thru ban put on hold in Irondequoit

It’s not the worst thing in the world to park your car,” said Jim Harte, who told the Town board that he moved to the Titus-Cooper-Hudson neighborhood ...

Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, NY
02/27/07
Volz victim of cultural, political, judicial perfect storm

Lamar Alexander and Rep. Jim Cooper had been following the trial, and both expressed disappointment and sadness with the verdict while offering no clear ...

Source: Nashville City Paper, TN
02/26/07
State delegation hot over troop equipment shortages

Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said the shortfall is inexcusable. "We've been at this war longer than World War II, and we are still not able to armor all of our ...

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN
02/26/07
Lawmakers irked troops still short armored vehicles, other equipment

Congressman Jim Cooper says the shortfall is inexcusable. Cooper noted we've been at war longer than World War Two and the military still isn't able to ...

Source: Daily News Journal (subscription)
02/26/07
Mobile park repairs slow

The park’s property supervisor, Jim Cooper of Waterhouse Management, said the labor-intensive job is estimated to cost more than $40000 and will involve ...

Source: Record-Searchlight (subscription), CA
02/25/07
The Rivett Report 02.26.07

"Congress has no business micromanaging a war, cutting off funding or even conditioning those funds," said Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn. ...

Source: 411mania.com, TX
02/25/07
Prosecutors want more anti-corruption power like feds

Attorney General Roy Cooper said the state's investigation into Black's conduct also "uncovered wrongdoing, but part of working to restore public trust is ...

Source: Hendersonville Times News, NC
02/23/07
Demos move to take on Bush

Jim Cooper, Tenn., a leading Democratic moderate, who labeled Murtha's whole effort "clumsy." Cooper's position underscores the challenges facing the House ...

Source: Modesto Bee, CA
02/23/07
'Breach' deft exploration of how top US spy got nailed

BY JIM GORDON. As consumers of literature and movies, we are endlessly fascinated with the figure of the spy. Artists as diverse as James Fenimore Cooper, ...

Source: nwitimes.com, IN

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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