Katie Hill, the press secretary for U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper for the past 18 months, is leaving the Nashville Democrat’s staff to take the same role with Gabby Giffords’ new political action committee. “I’m on to a new adventure as press secretary at Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun violence prevention group founded by former [...]
U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Nashville Democrat, will attend the 13th Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage this weekend, spokeswoman Katie Hill said today. While Nashville played a critical role in the civil rights movement, the pilgrimage will take place entirely in Alabama, moving from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham and then on to Montgomery and Selma. U.S. Rep. [...]
Blue Dog Democrat Jim Cooper plans to wear a different color — orange — at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. The Nashville congressman will wear an orange pin labeling him as one of No Labels’ “problem solvers.” The Washington policy organization is one of several bipartisan groups that Cooper, an [...]
The Action Tennessee and Tennessee Citizen Action – yes, those are two separate groups – just issued a joint statement about Congress’s move to avoid the fiscal cliff and took U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, a Nashville Democrat, to task for voting against it. Here’s the full statement: “Nashville, Tenn. (January 2, 2013) – The long [...]
Congressional candidate Brad Staats recently dismissed one campaign manager and brought on another with just a few weeks left in his campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper. Staats, the Republican nominee, said he let John Shorter go because “the campaign just wasn’t going in the direction that I wanted it to go.” “Several months [...]
One more from Tennessean Washington correspondent Paul C. Barton: U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper received an award Thursday night from the Concord Coalition, a research and advocacy group on federal spending issues. Cooper was honored as a Paul E. Tsongas Economic … Continue reading →
From Tennessean Washington correspondent Paul C. Barton: U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais joined House colleague Jim Cooper in saying he has no interest in becoming a lobbyist after he leaves office. Cooper on Monday became the first member of Congress to … Continue reading →