Memphis
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $1,312,806. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive $890,694 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the interaction between T-cell receptors and the peptide-major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today noted that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced it is reviewing its own efforts in addressing conditions at the Peppertree Apartments in Memphis after longstanding complaints, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – On the first day of Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the bipartisan Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act, to investigate the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and societal costs of cerebral palsy, the most prevalent life-long physical disability.
The bill is currently cosponsored by Congressmen Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO).
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today reintroduced the Housing Accountability Act, legislation that would hold property owners of low-income housing accountable for poor living conditions. Specifically, the legislation would require residents of private properties that have Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment contracts to be surveyed twice a year to determine the existence of persistent problems with a property’s physical condition or management.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Curb Leaders from Electioneering with Autographs on National (CLEAN) Checks Act, a measure prohibiting the manipulation of the public’s financial lifeline for a politician’s political gain. Until President Trump placed his name on every COVID-19 pandemic relief check, no President had so blatantly sought to take misplaced credit for federal assistance.
WASHINGTON -- As airlines continue to fail consumers, with refund complaints still 11,000 percent above pre-pandemic levels, Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced their Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act, legislation to provide consumers an enforceable right to a full cash refund when airlines cancel their flight.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath’s Early Head Start programs will receive $1,284,763 and the Shelby County Board of Education will receive $13,360,627 for Head Start programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration of Children and Families.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a resource study to determine whether the location of an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers in the waning months of the Civil War qualify it as a National Park Service site.
WASHINGTON – On Friday, March 3, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will hold an event for the news media to discuss the $1 million he secured for the YMCA Before and After School Programs at Memphis and Shelby County Schools. Officials with the YMCA and the schools are expected to participate.
What: A News Media Event to Discuss funding for Before and After School programs
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the City of Memphis will receive $14,819,865 and Shelby County will receive $1,641,575 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to meet a variety of housing and transportation needs.