While our military maintains capable air, land, and sea forces, the cyber and space domains now demand an increasing share of attention and investment.
Jim Cooper
The Public Record
If the Johnson amendment were to be repealed, as some are suggesting, 501(c)(3) tax exempt entities and their contributors would apparently be allowed to participate in political campaigns with tax deductible donations.
Congress has examined this issue before, and ultimately decided to rescind the tax deductibility of political contributions.
Under current law, churches and other houses of worship can speak freely and engage in partisan political activity.
Your church has never been questioned in America about whether someone was qualified to be President of the United States. Mine was.
But let's put in perspective that 1,500 people a day are going to die from cancer. And so, if you look at the trillions of dollars our government will spend, why is fighting cancer not a much, much higher priority?
So believe me: I'm a strong advocate for the United States military. I champion more money for the United States military. I want the men and women to have the most resources to protect and defend this Nation.
I hated the President's budget. I got a lot of respect for Mick Mulvaney and President Trump himself, but I thought his budget proposal on this category was pathetic and inadequate.
I recently introduced H.R. 1001, the Veterans Federal Hiring Protection Act. This legislation would simply exempt veterans from the hiring freeze.
by instituting a hiring freeze in the Federal Government, we're blocking out, we're freezing the opportunity of returning veterans to go to work.





