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Jim Cooper

politician, lawyer, investment banker, adjunct professor

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1954

James Hayes Shofner Cooper is an American lawyer, businessman, professor, and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 2003 to 2023. He is a Southern Democrat and was a member of the Blue Dog Coalition, and represented Tennessee's 4th congressional district from 1983 to 1995. His district included all of Nashville. He chaired the United States House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces of the House Armed Services Committee, and sat on the Committee on Oversight and Reform, United States House Committee on the Budget, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, more committees than any other member of Congress. At the end of his tenure, he was also the dean of Tennessee's congressional delegation. Cooper is the third-longest serving member of Congress ever from Tennessee, after Jimmy Quillen and B. Carroll Reece.

All Quotes by 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
“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
“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
“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, are the alternatives?”
— 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
“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