9th District
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking an update on the status of a Justice Department investigation into baby powder contaminated with carcinogenic asbestos and marketed to women of color.
The letter reads in part:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $315,415 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration and the regulatory landscape of the methylome.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will hold a press conference with Federal Transit Administration Administrator Nuria Fernandez, Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) CEO Gary Rosenfeld and local elected officials to discuss two recently announced Department of Transportation grants totaling $76.3 million to revitalize the city's bus system.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced U.S. Department of Homeland Security Port Security Grants to the City of Memphis ($398,250), the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission ($638,769) and Shelby County Government ($238,078), totaling $1,273,095.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $1,050,313 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research determining the contribution of microbial-derived metabolites to protective immunity in obesity-driven cancer risk.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $432,000 from the National Cancer Institute for pediatric oncology education.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today released the following statement following a shooting overnight in Memphis:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) will provide the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) with two grants totaling $76,378,905 to revitalize the city's bus system.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Serenity Recovery Centers, Inc. will receive a grant of $524,993 for the Healthy LifeResidential project from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. This project will provide treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women, including recovery support, harm reduction, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT).
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $327,646 for a project entitled "Data Mining and Machine Learning Guided QM/MM and QM-Cluster Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions."