Judiciary
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) expressed deep concern and condemned the decision by the House Intelligence Committee to drop its incomplete probe of Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion in the 2016 election.
Congressman Cohen added that the signal sent by Trump's firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is that overt criticism of ongoing Russian meddling in other nations' elections will not be tolerated.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has signed on to an effort to require the President to act on a law enacted last August to impose sanctions against high-level Russian officials for their roles in malicious cyber attacks on American democracy.
The Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act passed the House on a 419-3 vote and the Senate on a vote of 98-2 in July 2017 and became law on August 2, 2017. The law was intended to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle as the United States prepares for midterm elections this year.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) today introduced the DUI Reporting Act to address the loophole in our nation's drunken-driving laws that enables repeat DUI offenders to be charged and tried as first-time offenders because of inconsistent reporting.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and co-sponsors Ann Wagner, Tony Cardenas and Adam Kinzinger praised passage of the Stop, Observe, Ask and Respond (SOAR) to Health and Wellness Training Program (H.R. 767) today, a measure aimed at detecting ongoing human trafficking activity. The Representatives made the following statements:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, joined his colleagues in asking Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte to bring gun violence prevention legislation before the committee, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) reacted to today's Grand Jury indictments against 13 Russian nationals by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of pro-Trump Russian influence in the 2016 campaign, and made the following statement:
"The Russians' use of false U.S. personas and social media designed to attract U.S. audiences with divisive political and social issues was clearly intended to sway American voters, and succeeded. Russian manipulation influenced the psychology of American voters.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fresh Start Act, a bill that would enable certain non-violent ex-federal offenders who have served their sentences and are now law-abiding, productive members of society to have their convictions expunged from their records.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-08) today objected to the proposed elimination of funding for the Legal Service Corporation (LSC) in the Administration's Fiscal Year 2019 budget and vowed to fight for finding.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) expressed grave concerns about today's unprecedented and dangerously reckless release of classified information contained in the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo attributed to California Rep. Devin Nunes, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Before leaving Washington for Memphis, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) reviewed the controversial Republican House Intelligence Committee memo ascribed to California Rep. Devin Nunes, as well as the Committee Democrats' response memo, and released the following statement:
"Because material in the Intelligence Committee memos remains classified, I can't say very much about them, but I can compare them in terms of persuasiveness, and by that measure, the Nunes memo is a dismal failure.