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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today agreed to co-sponsor H. Res. 1113, Calling on the Secretary of State to designate the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism, and H.R. 8568, the Russia is a State Sponsor of Terrorism Act.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congresswoman Anna Eshoo (CA-18) today led a letter to the Public Interest Declassification Board seeking release of the remaining 14,000 documents associated with the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They note that the public is skeptical about the official version of events and that the documents’ release would help restore confidence through transparency.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Memphis-based Knowledge Quest will receive a $313,938 grant to support the Green Leaf Learning Farm, an organic direct-to-consumer operation, from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the National Park Service (NPS) will provide grants to two Memphis-area projects as part of its Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative. One grant, for $3,801, will support a historic marker near the site of the 1911 lynching of Pat Crump “to bring public awareness to racial terror lynchings in Shelby County,” according to the NPS statement.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that Tennessee will receive $1,256,554,233 from the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) in the Tennessee Congressional delegation voted for last year.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today introduced the Free Speech Protection Act with fourco-sponsors. The bill aims to deter so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) that powerful interests deploy to stifle free speech through bad-faith defamation lawsuits.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that AgLaunch, a Memphis-based non-profit organization that aims to accelerate the transformation of regional agriculture, will receive a grant of $1.5 million from the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and a member of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, today applauded President Biden’s decision to grant a full and unconditional pardon of all prior federal offenses for simple possession of marijuana by U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $1,400,393 for a project promoting Black wealth advancement under the direction of Management Professor Kurt Kraiger from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
WASHINGTON – Representative Steve Cohen (D-TN), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, along with Ranking Member Joe Wilson (R-SC), Jim Banks (R-IN), and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) issued a joint statement regarding the introduction of the bipartisan Stop Helping Adversaries Manipulate Everything (SHAME) Act. The legislation serves as a deterrent for would-be enablers of foreign governments seeking to undermine democracy, democratic institutions, and U.S.