Representative Jim Cooper

Committees:

• ARMED SERVICES (Subs: Intelligence & Special Operations; Seapower & Projection Forces; Strategic Forces (Chair));

• BUDGET;

• OVERSIGHT & REFORM (Subs: Environment);

Global Action Record:

• 2003 - HR 1298 - AIDS, TB, Malaria - Yea

• 2008 - HR 5501 - Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act - passed - Yea

• 2013/06/19 - HR 1947 Farm Bill Royce Amdt. - failed - allowed for aid to purchase "local" food aid instead of shipping from U.S. farms - Yea

• 2017/09/07 - HR 601 READ + Harvey Relief + Continuing Resolution + raising debt limit - Yea (signed into law by President Trump)

• 2019/01/17 - signed Lee/Smith GFATM letter to Secretary Pompeo

• 2019/06/18 - cosponsored HRes 189 in support of global maternal & child nutrition

• 2019/09/24 - cosponsor HRes 517 - Supporting the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and its Sixth Replenishment

• 2020/03/09 - Signed House PEPFAR, Global Fund Lee, Wagner Approps letter with robust funding

• 2020/03/10 - Signed House MCH, Gav, Nutrition McCollum, Brooks, Lee, Fitzptrick Approps letter with $900m, $290m, $200m

• 2020/06/30 - signed Frankel/Rooney global response to COVID-19 letter

• 2021/04/21 - signed Quigley, Fitzpatrick robust Basic Education Approps letter

• 2021/04/22 - signed McGovern, Fitzpatrick $300 million Nutrition Approps letter

• 2021/07/09 - signed Kilmer/Fitzpatrick letter to administration urging $1 billion / 5 year GPE pledge

• 2022/02/18 - signed Lee/McCaul letter to administration in support of robust pledge to Global Fund

• 2022/04/22 - signed Houlahan, Bera, González-Colón, Meijer significantly increase funding for PEPFAR & Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Approps letter

• 2022/10/19 - H.R.4693 - Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 (unanimous, President Biden signed into law)

U.S. Action Record:

• 2007 - HR 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act - cosponsor - yea

• 2007 - HR 1429 - Improving Head Start Act - Yea/Yea

• 2007 - HR 2419 - Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act - Nay

• 2007 - HR 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act - Nay

• 2008 - HR 5140 - Economic Stimulus - (passed; signed into law) - Nay/Nay

• 2008 - HR 6049 - Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (extends Child Tax Credit) - Yea

• 2008 - HR 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - Yea / Yea after veto

• 2008 - HR 6867 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Not Voting

• 2009 - HR 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Nay/Yea

• 2009 - HR 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - Yea/Yea

• 2009 - HR 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers & Small Businesses Act - cosponsor- Yea

• 2010 - HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act - Yea/Yea

• 2010 - S 3307 - Healthy Hungry Free Kids Act of 2010 - Yea

• 2010 - HR 4853 - Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Yea/Nay

• 2013/06/20 - HR 1947 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP- Nay

• 2013/09/19 - HR 3102 Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act (cuts SNAP $39b)- Nay

• 2014//01/29 - HR 2642 - Agriculture Act of 2014 = Farm Bill (cuts SNAP $8.6b) - Nay

• 2014/07/25 - HR 4935 - Child Tax Credit Improvement Act (extends CTC to higher-incomes families but fails to address expiring benefits to low-income families) - Nay

• 2015/12/17 - HR 2029 - Omnibus tax bill including permanent extension or critical EITC/CTC provisions - Yea

• HR 1628 - American Health Care Act of 2017 - Nay

• 2018/12/12 - HR 2 Farm Bill - early versions would have cut SNAP for people out of work - Nay, Nay, Yea

• 2020/06/29 - HR 7301 - Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act – Yea

• 2020/12/21 - HR 133 FY21 + Coronavirus Relief - Yea

• 2021/10/15- signed Torres letter to leadership preserve housing funding in recovery bill