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[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) today released the following statement on the decision to relocate the Director of the Memphis Veterans Administration Medical Center, Dr. C. Diane Knight to the Office of Primary Care Service Line at VISN 9 in Nashville, TN.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Congressman Jeff Denham (R-CA), members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today praised Amtrak for making their Pets-on-Trains pilot program permanent. Last year, Congressman Cohen and Congressman Denham introduced the bipartisan Pets on Trains Act, now law, which allows families and passengers to travel with domesticated cats and dogs on certain Amtrak trains. This law also gives Amtrak the flexibility to develop the details of their pet policy to best fit the service and their customers.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s Subcommittee on Aviation, today announced that the Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act (H.R. 4490) has gained bipartisan support in the House of Representatives. Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) signed onto the bill as a cosponsor. The SEAT Act would require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish a minimum seat size and minimum distance between rows of seats for the safety and health of airline passengers.
The recent resignation of U.S. Department of Justice Pardon Attorney Deborah Leff, just over a year after she was appointed, is alarming.
President Obama's appointment of Leff was a wise move that underscored his commitment to just and careful consideration of the thousands of petitions for clemency still pending.
Her departure, however, is an ominous sign that the office, with a staff of only 10 attorneys and nearly 10,000 petitions still awaiting review, will need significantly more resources to complete its work.
The recent resignation of U.S. Department of Justice Pardon Attorney Deborah Leff, just over a year after she was appointed, is alarming.
President Obama's appointment of Leff was a wise move that underscored his commitment to just and careful consideration of the thousands of petitions for clemency still pending.
Her departure, however, is an ominous sign that the office, with a staff of only 10 attorneys and nearly 10,000 petitions still awaiting review, will need significantly more resources to complete its work.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today received a perfect 100% score by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) for their 2015 National Environmental Scorecard. Congressman Cohen's score was the highest awarded to a member of Tennessee's Congressional Delegation. It far exceeds the 21% average score of the entire Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today greeted Manuel "Manolito" Alejandro, a three-year-old Cuban boy transferred by Memphis's International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) from Cuba to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN for life-saving heart surgery to treat Tetralogy of Fallot. According to the ICHF, Manolito is the first Cuban child to be transferred to the United States to receive pediatric heart surgery since the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s.
As anyone who has flown recently can tell you, airplane seats are getting smaller. In some cases, they are getting a lot smaller.
As anyone who has flown recently can tell you, airplane seats are getting smaller. In some cases, they are getting a lot smaller.