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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today reintroduced the Fresh Start Act, a bill to permit the expungement of the records of certain non-violent offenses.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Natural Resources Committee and of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, today wrote to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning with his concern that federal policies for managing wild horses and burros retain outmoded and inhumane plans for mass roundups. Congressman Cohen urged officials to make use of effective fertility control vaccines and reassess the capacity of federal lands to sustain the iconic creatures.

Congressman Cohen's letter reads in part:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee asking him to seek emergency assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the damage done by a major ice storm last week that still has tens of thousands without electricity.

The letter reads in part:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today presided at a hearing "Examining the History and Importance of ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing' " and H.R. 301, a bill introduced by House Majority Whip James Clyburn of South Carolina that would make the song America's national hymn.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today expressed satisfaction with the newly named Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) the Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau at a hearing on "Poland's leadership of the OSCE in a time of crisis."

MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today released the following statement to commemorate Black History Month, which is observed each February:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and Chairman of its Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today condemned the recent vandalization of a monument to Major League Baseball's first Black player, civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson, at his birthplace in southwest Georgia.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who as a state senator sponsored and assured the passage of a bill creating the Tennessee Holocaust Commission in 1984, today condemned the decision by the McMinn County School Board to ban Maus, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement: