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May 17, 2008 Italian’s Detention Illustrates Dangers Foreign Visitors Face (NYT)

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 16, 2008 This Is How We Treat Our Allies?

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 16, 2008 DHS: The Fascist State

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 16, 2008 Why Am I Not Surprised?

Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said the pilot effort has saved $19 million and he criticized the Defense Department for moving too slowly to make needed changes. “The foot dragging seems to be contagious,” Cooper said. But Rep. ...

May 15, 2008 The American government is just outta control.

"We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians," said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper's father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 15, 2008 Contractors, insurance firms gouging taxpayers, panel says

Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., said the pilot effort has already saved $19 million and he criticized the Defense Department for moving too slowly to make needed changes. "The foot dragging seems to be contagious," Cooper said. But Rep. ...

May 15, 2008 Re:Big up, USA !

"We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians," said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper's father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 14, 2008 Blue Dogs Fight Tuition Perks for Vets

has said that the Democratic differences would be ironed out this week. But Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said Tuesday that he has no intention of backing down. "The Blue Dogs still have plenty of fight," Cooper said. ...

May 14, 2008 Roman Holiday, Washington Nightmare

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 14, 2008 Foreign Visitors Beware, You Too Could End Up In Jail

“ 'We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 14, 2008 Blue Dog Coalition Trying to Shaft Soldiers

A couple of Congressmen, including Rep. John Tanner (D-TN), Jim Cooper (D-TN), and Allen Boyd (D-FL), all members of the Blue Dog Coalition, have gotten together to OPPOSE paying for the GI Bill this week. ...

May 14, 2008 CBP locks up Italian visitor for 10 days without charge

“We have a lot of government people here and lobbyists and lawyers and very educated, very savvy Washingtonians,” said Jim Cooper, Ms. Cooper’s father, a businessman, describing the reaction in his neighborhood, the Wessynton ...

May 14, 2008 Government Lies and Statistics

Rep. Jim Cooper (D., Tenn.) on bogus accounting and the federal deficit. (March 31)

May 14, 2008 Blue Dogs Fight Tuition Perks for Vets

has said that the Democratic differences would be ironed out this week. But Blue Dog Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) said Tuesday that he has no intention of backing down. "The Blue Dogs still have plenty of fight," Cooper said. ...

May 14, 2008 Government Lies and Statistics

Rep. Jim Cooper (D., Tenn.) on bogus accounting and the federal deficit. (March 31)

May 13, 2008 Odds and Ends

If only Hillary Clinton had been nicer to conservatives, then we could have had great health care plans like Jim Cooper's. Hell, Jim Cooper himself says so. And look, David Brooks agrees, so it much be right. ...

May 13, 2008 Quote For The Day

She criticized my health care bill because it wouldn't achieve universal coverage until 1998. Well, today we'd be celebrating the 10th anniversary of having every American with insurance," - congressman Jim Cooper, of Tennessee.

May 13, 2008 Congress: Money for War, But No Money for the Troops?

A couple of Congressmen, including Rep. John Tanner (D-TN), Jim Cooper (D-TN), and Allen Boyd (D-FL), all members of the Blue Dog Coalition, have gotten together to OPPOSE paying for the GI Bill this week. ...

May 13, 2008 Nashville's own Jim Cooper

“We’re completely overacting,” said Rep. Jim Cooper, a Blue Dog from Tennessee and a senior Democrat on the Budget Committee. “Everything’s an emergency. And an emergency’sa perfect lobbying excuse to get your bill passed that

May 12, 2008 Rep. Cooper Pronounces on Lincoln's Future

Sorry I didn't catch this one earlier (From the Memphis Newspaper): "He says that's not true," U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., told The Daily News about Da

May 12, 2008 She’sa fighter, all right

This Tennessee congressman, Jim Cooper, a Dem, went to see Hillary about her health care bill back in the 90s, intending to show her his own bill, privately:. “She brought in a camera to record the meeting. And she has not released the ...

May 12, 2008 GPTenn nominates Lugo for Senate

Miglietta, who is an officer with the Green Party of Middle Tennessee, will be challenging Jim Cooper for the House Seat, which covers most of Davidson County and the surrounding area. “I am happy to have John as a running mate and will ...

May 12, 2008 The Left Versus Coop

Jim Cooper is a right-wing Democrat, about as bad as they come. Of the 234 Democratic members of Congress with a rating in Progressive Punch, Jim Cooper ranks as the 215th most progressive. He is a Blue Dog, a term that was coined for ...

May 12, 2008 Everybody's favorite DINO

"Congress has no business micromanaging a war, cutting off funding or even conditioning those funds," said Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.), a leading Democratic moderate, who called Murtha's whole effort "clumsy." ...

May 12, 2008 Remainders: Gearing up

Jim Cooper is still nursing wounds from the 1994 healthcare fight. Halperin doesn't buy any of the Obama campaign's excuses for not competing in West Virginia. AFSCME -- along with other pro-Clinton unions -- will fight to the bitter ...

May 12, 2008 Everybody's favorite DINO

Jim Cooper, Obama's healthcare spokesperson's hit piece on Clinton was on the rec list on DailyKos. More info about Jim Cooper, Member of the "Blue Dog" Coalition of conservative Democrats. His votes. Banning partial-birth aborting - ...

May 12, 2008 How A Candidate-Based "Movement" Can Be Harmful

While the Daily Kos diary in question is specifically arguing that the [Bush Dog Jim] Cooper plan was great (although that is implied), it does take as its main point that health care reform failed in 1993-1994 because Democrats, ...

May 12, 2008 Cooper-ation

There was a story in the Memphis Daily News over the weekend about how Jim Cooper thinks that health care reform failed in 1993-1994 because Hillary Clinton was too mean to him. Naturally, it resulted in a diary that stayed on top of ...

May 12, 2008 Everybody's favorite DINO

"Congress has no business micromanaging a war, cutting off funding or even conditioning those funds," said Rep. Jim Cooper (Tenn.), a leading Democratic moderate, who called Murtha's whole effort "clumsy." ...

May 12, 2008 It was Hillary Clinton who killed health care reform

{US Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn:] "They turned up their nose at my bill, and that's fine. But then they constructed this secret 500-person task force to draft a whole new bill - and I knew it would go nowhere," Cooper said. ...