Jim Cooper actually said...

It took many years. Why? Because the administration of George W. Bush had a veto threat out on the legislation.

I, right now, have a 17 percent vacancy rate in my office just to stay under the limits that I have been operating under in the last few yea...

It is important that we work through these issues on a bipartisan basis for the good of the American taxpayer.

The American spirit is the can-do, we can fix it attitude, not the blame game, not the bickering game.