Memphis

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants, for $245,700 each, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. One grant will support research in trivalent live attenuated vaccines and the other will support research on Streptococcus pneumoniae.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Regional One Health officials will hold a press conference on Tuesday, January 23, to discuss the $1 million he secured last year and the $2 million he has secured in the current fiscal year for Regional One. Congressman Cohen, as a Shelby County Commissioner, cast the decisive vote creating the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (“The Med”), now known as Regional One.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) again today voted to avoid a federal government shutdown as Republican disunity and dysfunction required Democratic votes to prevent a catastrophe. This is the third time – after votes on September 30 and November 14 – when the House has had to take up temporary spending bills to keep the doors open.

The vote on passage was 314 to 108.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $409,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Metabolic checkpoint in dendritic cell subsets and adaptive immunity.”

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Shelby County will receive $2,058,400 for its Ryan White HIV Emergency Relief program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) plans to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday with continued work toward King’s goals and contemplation of what might have been. He made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Biden Administration decision to shorten the path to student debt cancellation under the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Program. Those students who borrowed less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years will have their entire debt cancelled next month without taking any action. The decision accelerates the SAVE deadlines by six months, making life-changing opportunities for student borrowers.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) asked the Department of Justice and its COPS program to come to Memphis in early September 2022 after the abduction and murder of St. Mary’s kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher and, days later, the shooting rampage by Ezekiel Kelly, some of which was livestreamed. Congressman Cohen requested federal resources to support and improve the Memphis Police Department.