Environment
Information regarding my stance on Environmental issues.
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) today went to the floor to encourage bipartisan support for the Build Back Better social and climate infrastructure bill and to praise President Biden's leadership.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who has a long history of attempting to make the Tennessee Valley Authority accountable to the communities it serves, today wrote to the utility's President and CEO Jeffrey Lyash to demand answers about TVA's decision to dump toxic coal ash at a landfill in Whitehaven.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted for and the House passed the Build Back Better Act, a once-in-generation investment in the people of our country and in the future of our climate.
WASHINGTON – As President Joe Biden touted the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act he signed into law on Monday with a tour earlier today of a General Motors plant in Detroit devoted to electric vehicles, Congressman Steve Cohen, a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, noted that Ford Motor Company's "Blue Oval City" investment in batteries and electric vehicles will transform the industry in West Tennessee.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, applauded the inclusion of several bills that he authored or co-authored in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which was signed into law by President Biden on Monday.
WASHINGTON – Just hours before President Biden is expected to sign the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, spoke from the House floor about the important elements in the bill the House passed on November 5.
In those remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
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 Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, tonight voted for the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Congressman Cohen has repeatedly pointed to the positive impacts this bill will have on Memphis and nationwide from economic growth, increased labor participation, and enhanced U.S. competitiveness.
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.