Education
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $1,251,110 grant to operate its Early Head Start Programs in Shelby County from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) released the following statement after the White House released just 1,500 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, leaving more than 10,000 documents either partially redacted or withheld entirely:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) tonight applauded the Senate's passage of his bill renaming the Memphis federal building exclusively for the late Judge Odell Horton. The measure, which removes the name of the late Congressman and segregationist Clifford Davis, now goes to President Biden to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted to advance the Emmett Till Antilynching Act to the full House of Representatives. He also spoke in favor of the bill, and on Memphis' history with lynchings, before the vote.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $181,745 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "ERI: Compositionally modulated ferrimagnets for spin-orbitronic devices." The research is under the direction of Shawn Pollard, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials Science.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today urged Committee colleagues to address violent felonies and support community policing. The remarks came during the markup of the Homicide Victims Families Rights Act.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) addressed the House of Representatives this morning to celebrate the induction of his childhood hero, Minnie Minoso, into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congressman Cohen, who first met Minoso in 1955, has advocated for his induction for decades.
In his floor speech, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $189,418 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Program.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Christ Community Health Services will receive a $489,356 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services' Teaching Health Center Planning and Development Program.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today led a letter to President Biden, urging him to enforce his Executive Order to eliminate the use of privately operated detention facilities by the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Marshals Service. This comes after new efforts of private prison companies to circumvent the Executive Order and retain federal prison contracts have surfaced.