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March 11, 2024

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the passage of his TVA Salary Transparency Act, which would reinstate and modernize the Tennessee Valley Authority’s annual reporting requirement to Congress on its management structure and on the compensation of its top executives and managers.

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March 8, 2024

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today introduced the TVA Increase Rate of Participation (IRP) Act to require greater transparency and accountability in the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) process.

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October 24, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Tennessee will be receiving $68,117,175 in Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funding, supplemented by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that he alone in the current Tennessee Congressional delegation supported.

Overview

The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a federally funded initiative designed to assist low-income households, seniors, and others in meeting their immediate h


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September 11, 2023

MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded President Biden’s nomination of Memphis native Patrice Jordan Robinson to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board of Directors.

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August 30, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $99,943 from the U.S.

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August 17, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts have led a letter to the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Board Chairman William Kilbride and its President and CEO Jeffrey J.

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July 27, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today offered an amended version of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Salary Transparency Act that he and Congressman Tim Burchett (TN-2) introduced last week at a markup of the legislation.

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July 20, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will provide the State of Tennessee $12,160,651 for costs incurred by the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division after the severe winter storm of February 3-4 last year. This public assistance is authorized under Section 406 of the Robert T.

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July 18, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today introduced a measure ensuring the public has access to information about the salaries of Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) employees making more than $109,908 annually, or the maximum basic pay rate of a General Schedule Grade 13 (GS-13) Federal employee.