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January 25, 2023

WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02), Marc Veasey (TX-33), Richard Hudson (NC-09), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), María Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) today introduced the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Secretary of State to designate the Russian-based Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).

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January 24, 2023

WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Bill Keating (MA-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02) and Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) today re-introduced the Combating Global Corruption Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would raise the profile of efforts to fight international corruption by evaluating and publicly naming countries where corruption is rampant.

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January 24, 2023

WASHINGTON – CongressmanSteve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Judiciary Committees, has reintroduced the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Second Screening Act.

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January 23, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking his assistance to ensure the health and safety of Tennesseans living with and at high risk for contracting HIV by providing HIV treatment and prevention funding directly to county health departments and community organizations after the Tennessee Department of Health’s (TDH’s) decision to discontinue its participation in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Prevention and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiat

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January 23, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) learned of the passing of revered Whitehaven pharmacist Dr. Charles Champion at the age of 92, and made the following statement:

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January 19, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $764,284 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research on the structure and functional mechanism involved with molecular chaperones and protein kinases.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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January 18, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County’s Ryan White HIV Emergency Relief Program will receive a $1,217,533 from the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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January 13, 2023

MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, January 18, Congressman Cohen and leaders of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital will discuss the two new ambulances for which he was able to secure funding this year through the congressional appropriations process. The media are welcome.

What: A press conference on two new ambulances secured for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

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January 13, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today released a statement commemorating the Monday, January 16, observation of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday:

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January 12, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) learned of the death of Lisa Marie Presley this evening and released the following statement: