Jim Cooper News

If you think the subprime mortgage crisis has been a mess, think what it means when a much bigger crisis hits.

Yesterday, we reviewed Lawrence Lessig's diagnosis that Congress needed fundamental change because the influence of money has corroded our ability to trust the institution to get the "2+2=4" basic policy ...

Laura Bush Pushes Reading First -- In case you missed it, First Lady Laura Bush was in Nashville yesterday to speak at the national Reading First conference.

NASHVILLE - Only about 150 Middle Tennessee voters will have the possibility of asking questions during a presidential debate at Belmont University this fall.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, said Monday that electric cooperatives should refund hundreds of dollars on average to individual ratepayers and called on the Tennessee Valley Authority, the wholesale power ...

Congressman Jim Cooper says consumers of 50 rural electric cooperatives in the Tennessee Valley need greater financial transparency from their power company and quite possibly a rebate.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper called on the Tennessee Valley Authority's board of directors Monday to alter a "magic little sentence" and allow electric cooperative members to return profits to customers.

Mayor Karl Dean announced today he has accepted the award recommendations of the Community Enhancement Fund review panels.

Tennessee officials are making the case to the federal government that Nashville needs its own immigration judge.

"The Davidson County Sheriff's Office has done an excellent job utilizing the 287 program to remove illegal immigrants," said Corker.

Two Middle Tennessee residents who were born in other countries but have come to love America are waging uphill battles to unseat a popular congressman this year.

A six-member delegation of US representatives from the House Democracy Assistance Commission is in the country for a four-day official visit.

Rep. Jim Cooper was allegedly under investigation by the FBI. The head of an electric cooperative trade group said Cooper was being investigated for entering the group's private Web site.

The head of a national trade group representing electricity cooperatives said Thursday that Rep.

Pedernales Electric Co-op, here in Texas, is under investigation for a whole mess of things.

U.S. Representative David Price is leading a delegation of six members of the House Democracy Assistance Commission on a visit to Kenya, July 2 to July 5. The primary focus of the visit is to develop ...

The hearing, by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, focused largely on the implosion of the nation's largest electric cooperative, which sits outside Austin, Texas.

The House has apparently not been contacted by the FBI in regard to allegations that Rep.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper appears to have hit a major nerve with the powerful lobby representing power cooperatives nationwide.

Rep. Jim Cooper , the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Democrat from Tennessee, doesn't mince words when describing his reaction to official government budget figures.