9th District
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Biden Administration decision to shorten the path to student debt cancellation under the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Program. Those students who borrowed less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years will have their entire debt cancelled next month without taking any action. The decision accelerates the SAVE deadlines by six months, making life-changing opportunities for student borrowers.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) asked the Department of Justice and its COPS program to come to Memphis in early September 2022 after the abduction and murder of St. Mary’s kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher and, days later, the shooting rampage by Ezekiel Kelly, some of which was livestreamed. Congressman Cohen requested federal resources to support and improve the Memphis Police Department.
WASHINGTON – Three years ago to the day that Donald Trump slapped Cuba with the designation of a State Sponsor of Terrorism as he was leaving the White House, Congressmen Steve Cohen today wrote to President Biden asking him to lift the resulting unnecessary economic sanctions. Congressman Cohen traveled to Cuba in 2016 with President Obama after he lifted sanctions and welcomed interaction with the Cuban people.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, engaged in the debate over whether Hunter Biden should be cited for contempt of Congress for failure to agree to a deposition behind closed doors while offering to testify in public. Several Committee members noted that Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan defied a Congressional subpoena to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol without consequence.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Brooks Museum of Art will receive a $500,000 matching infrastructure and capacity challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to generate private support for the ongoing move of the museum from Midtown to Downtown.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime advocate of lifting regulatory restrictions on marijuana, today wrote to Drug Enforcement Administrator Anne Milgram asking her to act expeditiously on an August 29 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommendation to reschedule marijuana to Schedule 3 under the Controlled Substances Act.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold a press conference with Cocaine and Alcohol Awareness Program (CAAP) Inc. on Monday to discuss the $671,000 he was able to secure through the annual appropriations process for targeted community projects. CAAP Executive Director Albert Richardson, Criminal Court Judge Jennifer J.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today called upon the Senate to swiftly pass a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reauthorization bill when it convenes next week. The House passed its FAA bill, the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, by a 351-69 vote last July.
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tim Burchett (TN-2) have submitted detailed public comments on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) notice of proposed rulemaking increasing the required duration of cockpit data recordings from two to 25 hours. While they strongly support that proposal to aid accident investigators, they urge the FAA to publish a rule requiring that cockpit data recording devices be recoverable without resorting to underwater search and recovery.