Jim Cooper
Jim Cooper
James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooperis the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district, serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party and the Blue Dog Coalition. He previously represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 June 1954
CountryUnited States of America
change exactly hopefully mood nerves
The mood has been loose. We've done everything exactly the same way. We can't change who we are now. There are some nerves naturally. But hopefully they'll have them too.
enemies
Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
tasty work
Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
bills fails pay suffers time
Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
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He's an excellent goaltender. But he tends to come out pretty far, so we talked about crossing up a bit more before we went out for the second period.
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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
created decades drowned federal gone intervene money
If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.
law equality-under-the-law triumph
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
years voting body
We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
years firsts debt
It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
thinking heritage eras
Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
strong war leader
Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
past years path
First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.