9th District

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Peter DeFazio (OR-04), Ranking Member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today sent a letter to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) President and CEO Bill Johnson seeking answers to questions regarding TVA’s historical contributions to its pension system, the pending TVA Retirement System modifications, and the impact that these changes would have on TVA workers and retirees who have voiced concern that the changes are inequitable and will

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), co-chairman of the Congressional Azerbaijan Caucus, released the following statement today on Armenia’s military aggression against Azerbaijan on the Line of Contact in Nagorno-Karabakh:

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, today issued the following statement after the Senate voted down an amendment offered by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) to legislation reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish minimum seat size standards for airplanes. Congressman Cohen is the author of bipartisan legislation in the House, the Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act (H.R.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement to commemorate the life and work of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated in Memphis, TN 48 years ago today:

[MEMPHIS, TN] - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today commended President Obama’s decision to commute the sentences of 61 drug offenders incarcerated in federal prisons, including two Memphians. Under current federal law, many of these prisoners would have already completed their sentences and been released.