Memphis
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Memphis-area organizations have received federal investments of $4,022,791 this year for AmeriCorps and Senior Corps programs. The funds are distributed by the Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) to increase access to early childhood education and other educational-related programs and to engage seniors in community service.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center $482,304 in new federal funds for heart and vascular diseases research. The funds will be distributed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting a presidential pardon for members of a recently imprisoned punk music group. Three members of the band -- Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina -- were sentenced to two years in prison for a performance at Christ the Savior Cathedral.
The text of the letter is pasted below:
August 20, 2012
His Excellency Vladimir Putin
President
Russian Federation
The Kremlin
Moscow, Russia
Dear Mr. President:
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center $364,965 for arthritis, musculoskeletal and skin diseases research. The funds will be distributed by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced Le Bonheur Community Health and Well-Being will receive $500,000 in new federal funds from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Ryan White Title IV Women, Infants, Children, Youth and Affected Family Members AIDS Healthcare project.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) announced today that the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded $336,875 to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for pharmacology, physiology and biological chemistry research.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today hosted a Telephone Town Hall on how best to create jobs and improve the economy, middle class tax cuts, health care, and other issues.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Memphis and Shelby County have received two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation worth a total of $1.2 million. The first grant -- worth $800,000 -- is for the purchase of two water taxis and to design and construct docking connections at points along Mud Island and in Wolf River Harbor. The second grant -- worth $400,000 -- will develop planning and preliminary design to reconstruct US 78.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) recently sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (OH-8) urging him to let the House of Representatives vote on bipartisan legislation the U.S. Senate approved to help save the U.S. Postal Service. A PDF of the letter is attached and the text of the letter is pasted below:
August 1, 2012
The Honorable John A. Boehner
Speaker
United States House of Representatives
H-232 The Capitol
Washington, D.C. 20515
Speaker Boehner,
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) and Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) were joined by 19 other members of Congress in formally requesting that the State Department conduct a new Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the revised proposal of the Keystone XL pipeline.