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March 26, 2025

WASHINTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) was named the fifth most effective Democratic member of the 118th Congress (2022-2025) today by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. The assessment is made in a report by the Center’s Co-Directors, Craig Volden of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, and Alan Wiseman of the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Congressman Cohen is identified by the Center as ideologically “liberal” in his voting pattern.

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March 25, 2025

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today introduced the Mobility Means Freedom Tax Credit Act to provide a 50 percent tax credit in the out-of-pocket expense of up to three mobility devices a year. The tax credit would apply to wheelchairs, braces, walkers, crutches, orthotics and prosthetics that help the physically disabled remain mobile.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 20, 2025

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking House Member of the Helsinki Commission and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. withdrawal from an ongoing investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine:

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March 18, 2025

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight held an in-person Town Hall meeting with nearly 900 constituents with special guest Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM).

More than 800 people crowded into the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church sanctuary to hear a lively discussion of reactions to the Trump-Musk transformation of the federal government and its workforce by what are clearly illegal and unconstitutional actions.

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March 18, 2025

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1), and Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5) today reintroduced the Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act to create a cerebral palsy research program to investigate prevention, diagnosis, treatment and the societal costs of cerebral palsy, the most prevalent life-long physical disability.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 18, 2025

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the House Ranking Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today introduced the America First Equipment and Information Act. The measure would prohibit arms sales, trades or loans of weapons to the Russian Federation, and would ban intelligence sharing.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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March 17, 2025

MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold an in-person town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 18, between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church to answer constituents’ questions and listen to their thoughts as the Trump-Musk Administration enters its ninth week. The news media are invited to attend.

What: An in-person Town Hall Meeting for 9th Congressional District constituents 

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March 13, 2025

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement after learning that the Trump U.S. Department of Transportation has directed its agencies to claw back previously awarded funding to local governments and entities for projects that include biking and walking trails and electric vehicle charging stations:

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March 11, 2025

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today vote “no” on a Continuing Resolution for federal funding through September 30 that passed on a 217 to 213 vote, and made the following statement:

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March 11, 2025

WASHINGTON -- – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland today reintroduced the Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act to help address America's unacceptably high infant mortality rate with concrete solutions. If enacted, the measure would create infant mortality-focused pilot programs in the highest-risk areas of the country to help the populations most vulnerable to this devastating crisis.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement: