Budget
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today held an event in his office in the Odell Horton Federal Building to celebrate with representatives of the 10 community projects for which he secured funding. The $11,701,000 secured in the FY22 Federal Spending bill is the most Tennessee's 9th Congressional District has ever received through the appropriations process.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will hold a press conference Thursday with recipients of the $11.7 million in funding he secured for ten community projects in this year's appropriations process. Those attending must wear face masks.
What: Community Project press conference
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the first round of new federal transit funding under the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) voted for from the entire Tennessee Congressional delegation, is heading to Memphis and Tennessee to strengthen public transportation systems, support transit jobs across the region and make urgently needed investments, including for new bus acquisitions, facility upg
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Dina Titus (NV-01) and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey today led a letter with 58 fellow Congressional colleagues to Senate and House Appropriations Committee and Interior Subcommittee leaders, requesting Interior Department appropriations language for the final Fiscal Year 2022 spending package that promotes the humane and fiscally responsible management of America's iconic wild horses and burros.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees, today voted for the rule for consideration of the Build Back Better Act, historic legislation investing in the nation's social safety net.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, spoke from the House floor today, applauding a variety of popular elements in the Build Back Better plan nearing a vote in the House including the extension of the Biden Child Tax Credit, the expansion of access to affordable home care for older adults, the authorization of universal, comprehensive paid leave for U.S. workers, and the largest effort to combat climate change in U.S.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, spoke from the House floor and expressed hope that both the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – which has passed the Senate – and the Build Back Better Act, which is still being negotiated, will pass with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today spoke from the House floor, endorsing the Build Back Better plan that will strengthen the nation's social safety net, invest in climate action, and cut taxes for the middle class.
In his floor speech, Congressman Cohen said:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted for, and the House passed, a temporary increase to the debt limit so that the United States can meet its obligation to creditors through at least early December. The vote followed Senate action last week. The measure now goes to the president to be signed into law.
The party-line vote on passage was 219 to 206.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) tonight voted for, and the House passed, a suspension of the nation's debt ceiling through December 2022, assuring the full faith and credit of the United States and preventing a Republican-caused economic crisis.
The vote on passage was 219 to 212.