Congressman Cohen secured $3 Million in federal Community Project Funding to support the Historic Melrose High School Restoration Project — phase one was recently completed, with the opening of Orange Mound's first-ever public library.
“This substantial HUD investment in our community will keep people comfortably housed while bolstering the local economy and addressing critical housing needs," said Congressman Cohen.
Congressman Cohen secured over $1.9 Million in FY 2024 Community Project Funding to help purchase new body cameras and sentinel surveillance cameras for the Memphis Police Department.
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) urged constituents to be aware of a significant backlog in U.S. State Department passport application processing and recommended early filing to avoid delays or trip cancellations.
“The thoughtful use of this PROTECT grant will restore the environment along our riverfront and strengthen the resiliency of major transportation and recreation corridors benefiting the entire Mid-South region," said Congressman Cohen.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Shelby County’s Air Pollution Control Program will receive a grant of $100,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one tranche of $3.7 million already approved.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“Residents of Shelby County are understandably concerned about air pollution and air quality. I’m pleased this funding from the EPA will support efforts to put additional regulations in place to improve air quality in our community.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Dean of the Tennessee Congressional Delegation, today led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence for the late FedEx founder and Memphis civic booster Frederick W. Smith, who passed away Saturday at the age of 80.
Before the moment of silence, Congressman Cohen spoke from the House floor, and said in part:
Dear Friend,
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today expressed disappointment at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender people under 18 and ruling against a challenge brought by three transgender adolescents, their families, and a Memphis-based medical provider.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has placed a poster depicting the “Gulf of Memphis” on an easel outside his Rayburn House Office Building door in Washington.
The action follows President Trump’s Executive Order 14172, signed on January 20, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”
See the depiction here:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois have introduced the Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act to adjust the percentage of federal support going to for-profit educational institutions.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday on Thursday, June 19. Juneteenth recognizes the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Texans that “all slaves are free” and that the Civil War had ended. The emancipated residents of Galveston celebrated that day and, over the years, its popularity as a holiday spread across the country and became an annual tradition.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $326,110 from the National Science Foundation to conduct a research project titled “Engineering 2D transition metal dichalcogenide electrodes with tunable band structures for enhanced capacitive performance” under the direction of Dr. Shawn D. Pollard of the Department of Physics and Materials Science.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
Dear Friend,
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today spoke from the House floor and then voted against the $9.4 billion rescissions bill that cuts already Congressionally appropriated money for public broadcasting (PBS and NPR) and foreign aid, including support for poor children through UNICEF.
In his floor remarks during debate on the bill, Congressman Cohen responded to Republican members who had made false claims, and said in part: