Education
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee which has jurisdiction over bankruptcy law, today reintroduced the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act (H.R. 138). The legislation would restore the treatment of private student debt to its pre-2005 status and make it dischargeable in bankruptcy.
WASHINGTON– Today, Congressman Cohen voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, known as an omnibus, to keep the government open and make transformative long-term investments at the local and national level.
WASHINGTON– Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced that Seeding Success’s Shelby County Community Schools Partnership (SCCSP) will receive a $2,796,802 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Full-Service Community Schools Program. This funding will support the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families at six full-service community schools in Northwest Memphis.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a grant of $13,360,628 to operate its Head Start programs. The funding comes from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis and LeBonheur Community Health and Well-Being will both receive substance abuse and mental health services grants from the Department of Health and Human Services. The university will receive $238,569 and LeBonheur Community Health will receive $250,000. Both are identified by the department as projects of regional and national significance.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and 11 Congressional colleagues today sent a letter to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy urging them to condemn former President Donald Trump’s recent antisemitic remarks and stand in solidarity with Jewish Americans.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) reacted to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision, announced today, that she would not to seek a leadership position in the 118th Congress but would remain in Congress, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime member of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, who received the Humane Society of the United States’ “Humane Horseman of the Year” award in June, today applauded House passage of his Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act to prevent the intentional injury to horses’ feet and legs to produce the artificial gait known as “The Big Lick” in horse show competitions. Congressman Cohen has been part of the leadership team of this bill since its first introduction.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a rebate of up to $6,715,000 to replace 17 existing school buses with clean and zero-emission (ZE) models to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier buses.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18) today led a letter to the Public Interest Declassification Board seeking release of the remaining 14,000 documents associated with the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They note that the public is skeptical about the official version of events and that the documents’ release would help restore confidence through transparency.