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In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Pork
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Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Equality
History
Equality Under The Law
Law
Triumph
Slow
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Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Bills
Fails
Suffers
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This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Jobs
Leadership
Congress
Republican
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Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Polling
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President Clinton was able to achieve budget surpluses despite a divided government.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Government
Able
Achieve
Clinton
Despite
Divided
President
President Clinton
Budget
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Any politician who's ever been re-elected knows that friends come and go; enemies accumulate.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Accumulate
Come And Go
Enemies
Re-Elected
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It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Home
Saving
Savings
Tucked
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Bush may be a strong leader in the war on terrorism, but on budget deficits he is missing-in-action.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Leadership
War
Leader
Strong
Terrorism
Budget
Budget Deficits
Bush
Deficits
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We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Health
Congress
Health Care
Special
Pretty
Politics Health Care
Cave
Special Interest
Subject
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Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Medicine
Tasty
Be Strong
Congressional
Swallow
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It took the first 204 years of our Nation's history to accumulate $1 trillion in debt. And now we are doing that every 2 or 3 years.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Debt
Firsts
Years
Accumulate
Trillion
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Home
Clueless
Real
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Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Clueless
Losing
Real Problems
Terrified
Politicians
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If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Medical
Bankruptcy
Disaster
Emergencies
Financial
Just One
Millions
American Families
Emergency
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If taxpayers want better results from Congress, they must stop paying their elected officials for failure. After all, you get what you pay for.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Elected Officials
Officials
Paying
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The truth is that health-care reform will always be a nuisance, with version 2.0 followed by next year's 2.1. As long as it boosts productivity, it's worth it.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Boost
Nuisance
Productivity
Reform
Truth Is
Worth It
Version
Followed
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With our national savings rate well below one-percent, it is imperative that the government embrace innovative and cost-effective means of boosting personal savings.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Embrace
Innovative
Rate
Savings
Below
Cost-Effective
Imperative
Personal Savings
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While tax refunds amount to substantial income for many Americans, current IRS rules do not allow taxpayers to directly deposit their refund into more than one account.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Income
Irs
Taxpayers
Tax
Rules
Account
Allow
Current
Deposit
Directly
Substantial
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Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Garfield
Office
President
Veto
Years
Bill
Bush
James
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Well, where is the money? Show me the money? Our allies have put up a few billion dollars, but the American taxpayer has been required to shoulder the burden of this war.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Allies
Burden
Dollars
American Taxpayer
Billion
Billion Dollars
Required
Shoulder
Taxpayer
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Clinton
Exceed
Foundation
Heritage
Institute
Spending
Tanks
Thinking
Bush
Criticized
Increases
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The President's budget pays for only six months of the war in Iraq and completely overlooks the transition costs of Social Security reform. The Administration always lied about the cost of the Medicare drug bill.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
War
Administration
Cost
Drug
Iraq
Lied
Social Security
Bill
Budget
Social Security Reform
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Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Aging
Blood
Decline
Flow
Law
Nations
Obsolete
Oxygen
Physicians
Preventing
Reaching
Slowing
Call
Empire
Historians
Parts
Politic
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First, the year 2004, the year past, the Comptroller General of the United States, David A. Walker, said that arguably it was the worst year in American fiscal history, clearly setting our Nation on an unsustainable path.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Past
Path
Setting
Years
Arguably
David
Fiscal
Unsustainable
Walker
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Immortality awaits the legislator fortunate enough to have a significant law named after him. Think of Pell grants or Stafford loans for students, Sarbanes-Oxley to regulate Wall Street, or the Hyde Amendment on abortions.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Abortion
Fortunate
Grants
Hyde
Immortality
Significant
Amendment
Awaits
Named
Legislator
Loans
Pell
Regulate
Wall Street
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I think the job of leadership is to expand what can be talked about and to get consensus on the nature of the problem, and that is most of the job. Because once you do that, once you have diagnosis, treatment options are obvious.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Consensus
Diagnosis
Obvious
Treatment
Expand
Options
Talked
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We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Citizens
Spending
Vote
Money People Will
Allow
Bond
Issue
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If Congress wanted to intervene with the Federal Reserve, well, we created the Federal Reserve. We could uncreate it. But would you want Congress regulating the money supply? We'd have drowned in inflation, or gone bankrupt, decades ago.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Congress
Decades
Federal Reserve
Inflation
Drowned
Federal
Intervene
Reserve
Supply
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We are scheduled to meet this year fewer days than any Congress since at least 1948. And that is even before I was born. So far, we are in the 123rd day of this year, and yet we have only had 26 voting days in this body. That is a shame.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Body
Born
Congress
Fewer
Shame
Voting
Years
Since
Days
Far
Least
Meet
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Members walk into the chamber full of hatred. They believe the worst lies about the other side. Two senators stopped by my office just a few hours ago. Why? They had a plot to nail somebody on the other side. That's what Congress has come to.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Chamber
Plot
Senators
Stopped
Nail
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Under the AHP approach, the average small business might be able to offer their employees one or two insurance plans, and that employee of the small business would have no idea whether their doctor was going to be a apart of one of those plans.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Approach
Average
Doctors
Employee
Ideas
No Idea
Plans
Small Business
Apart
Doctor
Insurance
One Or Two
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This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Boost
Important
Income
Simple
All Americans
Particularly
Important Step
Low
Provide
Save
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Almost every economist agrees that the American health care system is unsustainable. Medical care is so expensive that it is busting all of our budgets - government, business, and personal. Eventually, the medical price bubble will pop. What, then, are the alternatives?
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Agree
Alternatives
Budgets
Busting
Economist
Expensive
Health Care
Health Care System
Medical Care
Bubble
Price
Unsustainable
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The U.S. government uses cash accounting. That is illegal for any enterprise of any size in America except for the U.S. government. Every for-profit business, every not-for-profit business, every state and local government has to use real accounting except for Uncle Sam.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Accounting
America
Cash
Enterprise
Illegal
Local Government
Size
State
Except
Local
Sam
Uncle
Uses
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If you need to put your money in a safe and secure place and you want it to earn interest, Treasury bonds are safer than putting it in any bank as a deposit or putting it anywhere else, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Government
Credit
Safe
Secure
Ties
Treasury
United States Government
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Backed
Bank
Bonds
Deposit
Earn
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True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Bills
Blood
Contact
Legislation
Disgust
Draft
Enemies
Sport
Zero-Sum
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The real problem with big issues like Medicare is that both parties have to be brave at the same time. Every pollster will tell you not to do that to get partisan advantage. Too many people here are willing to deliberately harm the country for partisan gain. That is borderline treason.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Advantage
Be Brave
Borderline
Harm
Medicare
Treason
Willing
Both Parties
Deliberately
Gain
Parties
Real Problem
Same Time
Too Many People
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When I first came to Congress, the party was supposed to help you. Now, when a new member is sworn in, he or she is told what their dues are - how much they are expected to raise for the party for the next election. It's worse in the Senate. It turns the whole place into a money machine.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Congress
Dues
Election
Expected
Senate
Turns
He Or She
How Much
Machine
Member
Next Election
Raise
Supposed
Sworn
Worse
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Most of my folks back home think Social Security and Medicare are sacred commitments stronger than the strongest contract. And yet if you look at the details here in Washington, they're not even promises. They're scheduled benefits. I think we need to do all that we can to make sure those benefits are real.
Jim Cooper / U.s. Representative
Benefits
Details
Folks
Medicare
Sacred
Social Security
Stronger
Commitments
Contract
Promises
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