9th District
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Don Bacon (NE-2) today introduced a measure to make nationals of the Czech Republic eligible for an E-1 visa if U.S. nationals are similarly treated by the Government of the Czech Republic.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced a $1,018,872 grant to Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being to provide health services under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Memphis-based Withers Collection Museum and Gallery on Beale Street will receive a $100,000 Museum Grant for African American History and Culture from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today cheered the announcement that Elon Musk’s xAI company will be building the largest and most powerful supercomputer in history – the Gigafactory of Compute -- in the former Electrolux oven factory in Southwest Memphis, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN), the Ranking House Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the Helsinki Commission, today discussed the decline in democratic norms under the Georgian Dream Party.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $2,340,000 from the National Science Foundation for a research project entitled “US-UK-China Collab: Understanding the Impact of Poultry Vaccination on H5Nx Avian Influenza Virus Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics.” The research is under the direction of principal investigator Richard Webby and co-principal investigators Justin Bahl and Nicolas Wu.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today had the opportunity to discuss Memphis’ violent crime problem and solutions with Attorney General Merrick Garland at an oversight hearing. Congressman Cohen noted that Memphis was the second city to join the Violent Crime Initiative which increases federal resources in specific communities.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $836,990 to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today attended and spoke at the Washington Dialogue, a historic forum at the U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters. The Washington Dialogue highlighted Russian voices that oppose Putin’s war.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $491,400 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study “transcriptional and metabolic heterogeneity in T cell differentiation.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: