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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), the Commission’s Chairman, today reintroduced a resolution calling for the removal of Russia from the U.N. Security Council. The leaders of what is also known as the Helsinki Commission referred to Russia’s ongoing and unjustified aggression in Ukraine as their rationale.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the State of Tennessee’s Department of Environment and Conservation will be receiving $8.6 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $682,433 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project titled “Sustainability determinants of an intervention to identify clinical deterioration and improve childhood cancer survival in low-resource hospitals.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County homelessness programs will receive $6,832,309 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Competition Awards Program. The state of Tennessee will receive $27,094,890 under the program which is providing $2.8 billion nationwide, according to an announcement today by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $398,850 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program to recruit and retain a diverse cohort of future school counselors focused on “high need” students of the Memphis and Shelby County Schools.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) is closely monitoring events following this morning’s deadly shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville, and made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today took note of the decision by Honduras to formally establish diplomatic ties with the People’s Republic of China and to abandon them with the Republic of China (Taiwan), and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today addressed efforts to improve passenger safety and comfort at a hearing on “Navigating the Comprehensive Passenger Experience.” The hearing was the third held this year on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $414,779 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering for a project entitled “Downregulation of neutrophil extracellular traps by fibrous regeneration template design.” The project is under the direction of Dr. Gary L. Bowlin, Chairman and Professor in the University’s Biomedical Engineering Department.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center will be receiving two significant research grants from the National Institutes of Health. The first, for $756,105, is from the National Institute for Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for work on “Prenatal Longitudinal Metabolomics Profiling for Early Childhood Growth Trajectories and Obesity Risk in a U.S.