9th District
Dear Friend,
This week, I joined the Memphis Downtown Commission to help our efforts to revitalize the city center, I discussed our nation's response to recent Ebola diagnoses on CNN, and I visited a LeMoyne-Owen College class to have a conversation about our federal government with local students. Keep reading to learn more about what I did this week.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) is calling on U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to ensure that the City of Memphis receives more than $2.2 million in police department funding it is owed that was mistakenly awarded to DeKalb County, Georgia in 2009.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis was awarded a total of $2,408,361 in federal grant funding for four different research projects.
“These significant federal investments will help keep Memphis and the UT Health Science Center at the forefront of the medical research community,” said Congressman Cohen.
The following grants were awarded to UTHSC under today’s announcement:
Dear Friend,
This week, I led almost 50 Members of Congress in demanding needed support for medical research to help find a vaccine for Ebola and prevent its spread, I asked Governor Haslam to work with Attorney General Eric Holder to do more to ease the suffering of a 3-year-old Memphian, and I fought to stop conservative-led state legislatures from diluting the voting power of African-Americans. Keep reading to learn more about what I did this week.
Top 5 congressional districts with the most African-Americans have been gerrymandered by conservative Deep South state legislatures
[MEMPHIS, TN] – In a letter sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) sought to shed light on the redistricting practice known as “packing” that is increasingly used by many conservative-led state legislatures in the South to minimize the influence held by minority communities, specifically African-American communities.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement in response to University of Memphis President M. David Rudd’s announcement that he will seek approval from the Tennessee Board of Regents to raise U of M workers’ minimum wage to $10.10 per hour:
[MEMPHIS, TN] – In two letters, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) urged Governor Bill Haslam and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to work together to ease the suffering of 3-year-old Memphian Chloe Grauer, who suffers from hundreds of seizures each day due to a rare neurological disease. Her parents have tried numerous available medical treatments, but Chloe is unable to obtain Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive form of cannabis shown to alleviate seizures, due to excessive federal restrictions on the medicine’s importation into Tennessee.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is criticizing Gov. Bill Haslam's campaign on the Tennessee Promise and use of lottery money for free junior college tuition, saying it "siphons" money from the Hope Scholarship and helps only affluent and low-achieving students.
Some 35,000 students already have applied for the funds to attend community colleges across the state free of charge, nearly doubling the state's application goal of 20,000. The deadline to apply is Nov. 1.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is criticizing Gov. Bill Haslam's campaign on the Tennessee Promise and use of lottery money for free junior college tuition, saying it "siphons" money from the Hope Scholarship and helps only affluent and low-achieving students.
Some 35,000 students already have applied for the funds to attend community colleges across the state free of charge, nearly doubling the state's application goal of 20,000. The deadline to apply is Nov. 1.
Dear Friend,
This week, I announced $8 million in federal funding to help almost 1,000 unemployed Memphians find good-paying jobs, helped open Old Dominion's brand new Memphis Service Center which will create almost 200 jobs in our city, and met with minority business leaders in my office. Keep reading to learn more about what I did in Memphis this week.