9th District
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $250,770 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct diabetes prevention research .
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Methodist LeBonheur Community Outreach will receive a $572,024 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today expressed his condolences to the family of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and to the Japanese people. He sent a private letter to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today praised President Biden's executive order protecting reproductive rights, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, today wrote to President Biden to encourage him to do everything in his power to secure the release of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan and Vladimir Kara-Murza from Russian detention.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Today, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Co-Chairman Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jim Cooper (TN-05) today applauded the Biden Administration's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for asking Tennessee to rethink major changes that would have turned Tennessee's Medicaid program, known as TennCare, into a block grant.
WASHINGTON – In advance of Monday's observance of America's 246th birthday, Congressman Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $500,500 and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $308,000, both to study tauopathies. The grants are from the National Institute on Aging. Tauopathies are a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders defined by the presence of tau protein aggregates in the brain.