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James Hayes Shofner "Jim" Cooper is the U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district (based in Nashville), 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.
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I would rather avoid disaster than take it out for dinner and a movie. -

Jim Cooper

If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.

Jim Cooper

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

Jim Cooper

Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.

Jim Cooper

It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Jim Cooper

Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, a...

Jim Cooper

The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting ...

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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.

Jim Cooper

This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the fut...

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With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.

Jim Cooper

President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.

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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

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Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need t...

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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.

Jim Cooper

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.

Jim Cooper

Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.

Jim Cooper

If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the Unit...

Jim Cooper

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

Jim Cooper

I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.

Jim Cooper

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a cont...

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Author Bio

  • NameJim Cooper
  • Descriptionpolitician
  • BornJune 19, 1954
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPolitician