Jim Cooper actually said...

I recently introduced H.R. 1001, the Veterans Federal Hiring Protection Act. This legislation would simply exempt veterans from the hiring f...

by instituting a hiring freeze in the Federal Government, we're blocking out, we're freezing the opportunity of returning veterans to go to ...

we didn't want it to get mired in a political battle like the Benghazi Committee did

this was such a serious attack on our democracy, and our election process, that it deserved that kind of attention