Our guest this week on The Prescription is Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN). A member of Congress since 2003, Cooper will reflect on the many fiscal challenges lawmakers face and what can be done to restore bipartisanship.

This interview is part of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center series of online conversations on tax and fiscal policy in today’s economy. The discussions take place every other Thursday afternoon and feature varying perspectives on the historic economic challenges facing the United States and the world and the best ways to address them.