Memphis
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today filed formal comments with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services opposing the block grant-style waiver for Tennessee's Medicaid program, known as the TennCare III waiver. The unhealthy waiver, granted by the Trump administration as it was leaving office without public comment, would be a "a devastating blow to Tennesseans who rely on Medicaid to meet their basic health needs." TennCare is Tennessee's Medicaid program.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Memphis Fire Department will be receiving a $10,795,984 grant from the Department of Homeland Security through the Fiscal Year 2020 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) program to hire additional firefighters.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $528,622 grant from the National Cancer Institute to study clonal therapy for pediatric T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $3,211,742 to repair, renovate and modernize its biocontainment laboratory from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath's Head Start Programs will be receiving two grants totaling $3,399,220 from the Administration for Children and Families-Office of Head. One of the grants, for $2,098,080, is for expansion of its Early Head Start programs.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) recognized the annual Labor Day holiday Monday with the following statement:
MEMPHIS – During a Committee on Natural Resources mark up of elements of major infrastructure legislation today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) asked his fellow Committee member, Congressman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), to retract his verbal description of the United States as a "banana republic." Congressman Gosar declined the polite and civil request and insisted "we might be even worse."
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $705,287 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for research predicting the progression of chronic kidney disease in sickle cell anemia using machine learning models.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today congratulated the Mid-South Minority Business Council Continuum (MMBC Continuum), its President and CEO Jozelle Luster Booker and the entire staff of the Tennessee Minority Business Development Center for securing a five-year, $1,875,000 grant from the Department of Commerce to change its name and expand its footprint statewide. Previously, the Memphis Minority Business Development Center emphasized support for minority businesses in the Memphis area.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) this morning introduced the Medicare Medically Necessary Dental Care Act, legislation that would give Medicare patients facing certain ailments or preparing for certain surgical procedures the dental coverage they need.