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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
#American
#Change
#Disaster
#Medical
Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
- Jim Cooper
#Be Strong
#Enough
#Medicine
#Must
#Work
In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.
- Jim Cooper
#Congress
#Pork
#Time
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
- Jim Cooper
#Equality
#History
#Hope
#Law
#Slow
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
#Business
#Government
#Health
#Medical
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
#Embrace
#Government
#Our
#Personal
#Well
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
#Credit
#Faith
#Government
#Money
#Place
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
#Brave
#Country
#People
#Real
#Time
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
#Change
#Future
#Important
#Simple
#Step
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
#Believe
#Hatred
#Walk
#Why
#Worst
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
#Body
#Born
#Day
#Shame
#Voting
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
#Election
#Help
#Money
#New
#Place
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
#Details
#Home
#Look
#Real
#Security
Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.
- Jim Cooper
#Been
#Congress
#Less
#Than
#Whole
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
#American
#Burden
#Me
#Money
#War
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
#First
#Four
#Only
#President
#Take
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
#Congress
#Gone
#Inflation
#Money
#Want
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
#Always
#Long
#Truth
#Will
#Worth
This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.
- Jim Cooper
#Doing
#Job
#Leadership
#Republican
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
#Failure
#Government
#Home
#Problems
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
#Accounting
#Business
#Government
#Real
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