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Jim Cooper

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Jim Cooper is a Democratic politician from Tennessee who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represented Tennessee's 5th congressional district from 2003 until 2021, having previously served in the same role from 1983 to 1995. Throughout his career, Cooper has focused on issues such as fiscal responsibility, healthcare reform, and government transparency. He is known for his moderate stance and willingness to work across party lines. Cooper has been an advocate for reducing the national debt and improving the efficiency of government programs.

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Feb 22, 2021

It is time for us to stop discussing what we should do next and go do it.

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Feb 22, 2021

Thank you, Mr. Langevin. I appreciate that.

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Feb 22, 2021

It does look like a dragon or a salamander or a gerrymander or something.

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Feb 22, 2021

I agree that nuclear deterrence is the department's highest priority mission.

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Dec 16, 2020

Let me conclude by saying, watching you testify makes my blood boil. I'm not sure that I'm aware of any family in America that's more evil than yours.

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Oct 22, 2020

That's not efficiency. That's insanity.

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Sep 30, 2020

one California Senate district in the Bay Area has collected EV rebates from the State totaling more than $55 million.

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Sep 13, 2020

I think this committee has a special opportunity here to find out the truth in this matter.

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Sep 13, 2020

There are ways that we can combine with our Republican friends to solve problems, like by relieving the post office of this $5 billion annual obligation, but first we've got to make sure that the post office is not being led by criminals.

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Sep 13, 2020

This is an extraordinary situation, to have the post office led by someone, as I think Mr. Painter succinctly summarized, who has committed probably felonies before and during his tenure as Postmaster General.

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Sep 13, 2020

This is a requirement, as the chair well knows, that no other Federal agency, no private firm has to wear a straitjacket of this type.

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Sep 13, 2020

Never has the post office been led by more partisan people, or people closer to the current Senate Majority Leader, Mr. McConnell.

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Sep 7, 2020

Did you pay back several of your top executives for contributing to Trump's campaign by bonusing or rewarding them?

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Sep 7, 2020

That's an outrageous claim, sir, and I resent it.

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Aug 23, 2020

That's not efficiency. That's insanity.

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Aug 23, 2020

In my heart, I'm tempted to ask, after 240 years of patriotic service delivering the mail, how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks?

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Aug 23, 2020

Mr. DeJoy, here's what your so-called reforms have done to my district in 70 days.

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Aug 23, 2020

How dare you disenfranchise so many voters when you told the Senate committee just last week that you had a sacred duty to protect election mail.

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Aug 23, 2020

Fifty-three foot trucks forced to travel hundreds of miles completely empty due to your so-called reforms. That's not efficiency. That's insanity.

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Jul 28, 2020

Thank you so much, Chairwoman Maloney, and also I would like to honor Delegate Norton.

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Mar 10, 2020

Well, LabCorp and Quest are wonderful companies, but still, we are behind South Korea in terms of making testing available. So, how do we solve this gap?

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Mar 10, 2020

I worry about what we heard when we discussed HR3, that were HR3 to become law, that we would lose much of that ability through the private sector to come up with the cures that we need to come up with.

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Mar 2, 2020

This subcommittee hearing has to be on one of the most important, most complicated topics of any subcommittee hearing.

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Feb 26, 2020

You can solve my problem with no money and three words: 'flood control storage.'

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