Heritage Action Names Jim Cooper Congress's "Most Conservative Democrat"

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Thursday June 20, 2013 · 10:24 AM PDT

2013/06/20 · 10:24

Heritage Action for America recently updated its conservative rating scorecard for the 113th Congress, and to nobody’s surprise, Representative Jim Cooper (TN-05) has tied North Carolina Representative Mike McIntyre (NC-07) for the title of Congress’s “most conservative Democrat.” With a conservative rating of 33%, Cooper finds himself markedly above House Democrats’ average rating of 6%. Based on the votes that the Heritage Foundation has scored so far, Cooper has also voted to the right of six House Republicans during the current legislative session, as well as Republican Senator Susan Collins (R-ME). By contrast, Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) – the only other Democrat in the Volunteer State who currently holds Federal elective office – earned a conservative rating of 10%.

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Thursday April 25, 2013 · 12:49 PM PDT

2013/04/25 · 12:49

As the Nashville Scene reported just a few weeks ago, Congressman Jim Cooper’s record on gay rights has been spotty, at best. His recent failure to sign congressional Democrats’ anti-DOMA amicus brief in support of marriage equality was extremely disappointing to many of us here in Nashville, but that obviously paled in comparison to the fact that Congressman Cooper had previously voted for a constitutional amendment to prohibit same-sex marriage— twice. Of particular note, those two votes took place as recently as 2006 and 2004. Incredibly, however – immediately after announcing his new position for “civil” marriage equality a couple of weeks ago – Cooper also had the audacity to pretend that he “couldn’t immediately recall” his prior votes to weave discrimination against gay couples into our constitutional fabric.

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Heritage Action Names Jim Cooper Congress's "Most Conservative Democrat"

Jim Cooper pretends that he can't “immediately recall” his votes to prohibit same-sex marriage