Education
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, a senior Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, a member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation have reintroduced legislation to help keep our kids safe as they travel to and from school.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned the entire premise of a hearing on the so-called Censorship-Industrial Complex. In his remarks, he expressed concern about the rule of law and the role of Elon Musk, owner of the former social media platform Twitter (now X), and the place of truth in our civic discourse.
In the course of questioning witnesses, Congressman said in part:
WASHINGTON -- Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), David Schweikert (AZ-1), and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today wrote again to President Trump welcoming his Executive Order decision to release the remaining records associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963 and the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., both of which occurred in 1968.
The Members of Congress wrote:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a resource study to determine whether the location of an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers in the waning months of the Civil War qualify it as a National Park Service site.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) plans to commemorate Monday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and will remember the horrific murder of six million Jewish people and others during the Holocaust.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), David Schweikert (AZ-1), and Tim Burchett (TN-2) today wrote to President Trump urging him to act on a campaign promise to release the remaining records associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK) in 1963. Hours later, President Trump took a large step forward in that process, issuing an executive order that directs the government to develop a plan to release the remaining JFK assassination-related records as well as records regarding the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced a $1,999,581 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to the University of Memphis for a project titled “S-STEM Bridging the Gaps: Cultivating STEM Identity and Success through STEM Outreach, Networking, and Scholarships,” under the direction of Dr. Stephanie Ivey, Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Civil Engineering.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced a $231,000 research grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) from the National Eye Institute. The project is titled “a generalizable deep learning platform for unifying quantification of experimental autoimmune uveitis.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Blues City Cultural Center, a non-profit performing arts and visual arts organization founded in 1979, will receive a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a project exploring the history of the Orange Mound community.
The project’s title is “This is Orange Mound: Past Reflections and Future Directions.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), Danny K. Davis (IL-7) and Eric Swalwell (CA-14) today reintroduced the Private Student Loan Bankruptcy Fairness Act, a measure to provide critical relief to those in severe financial distress because of overwhelming student loan debt.