9th District

[Washington, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today announced the Department of Justice is monitoring the state investigation of the death of Darrius Stewart, a 19 year old African American Memphis man shot by a Memphis Police Officer following a routine traffic stop last summer. The Department of Justice also indicated it would take appropriate action if civil rights violations occurred.

[Washington, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement regarding the announcement that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) will now handle all inquiries into officer-involved deaths for the Memphis Police Department and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

[Washington, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement today regarding the Social Security Administration’s anticipated announcement this week that there will be no increase in the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients in 2016.

[Washington, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) today hailed Senate passage of legislation predominantly based upon the Enhancing Safety at Military Installations Act, a bill introduced by Cohen and Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) to allow members of the Armed Forces to protect themselves while on military bases and at recruitment facilities. The Congressmen introduced the bill in July following a deadly shooting at a Chattanooga, TN military recruitment facility. The bill was cosponsored by the entire Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.

[WASHINGTON, DC] –Congressman Steve Cohen released the following statement this morning regarding the death of Memphis Police Officer Terence Olridge.

“Like all Memphians, my thoughts and prayers today are with Officer Olridge’s family and his fellow officers,” said Congressman Cohen. “It is both shocking and sad to lose another Memphis Police officer.”