Memphis
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Helsinki Commission; Congressman Tom Malinowski (NJ-07), Co-Chairman of the Congressional Counter-Kleptocracy Caucus, and Congresswoman María Salazar (F-27) today wrote to President Biden asking him to sanction Russian oligarch Roman Abramovic and his ties to a New York-based financial consulting firm.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today spoke virtually at the extraordinary session of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly and pledged united American support for Ukrainian President Velodymyr Zenensky and the Ukrainian people.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who began his legal career as the legal advisor to the Memphis Police Department when Gene Barksdale was serving there as an Inspector, made the following statement after learning of the late Sheriff Barksdale's passing:
MEMPHIS – Late Wednesday night, Congressman Cohen voted to pass an omnibus spending package to keep the government open and make transformative investments to help working families with the cost of living, create American jobs, and support the vulnerable. It also included $11.7 million in funding for the community projects in Tennessee's 9th Congressional District that Congressman Cohen requested through this year's appropriations process.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, tonight voted to pass a ban on imports of Russian oil and energy products into the United States.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, on Tuesday questioned expert witnesses at a hearing on "Reimagining Public Safety in the COVID-19 Era."
Congressman Cohen asked Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about his city's use of the $350 billion authorized for police funding in the American Rescue Plan, noting that no Republican members of Congress voted for the measure. Houston received $45 million of that funding to augment its efforts, Turner said.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $557,841 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research entitled "Measuring Lifelong Multimorbidity with Patient Perspectives: Implementing and Visualizing the Cumulative Burden Methodology Across Cohorts."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced a $179,375 grant to the University of Memphis from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research on neurological disorders.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today voted on a resolution supporting the people of Ukraine.
The vote was 426 to 3.
After the vote, Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, and the Commission's Ranking Member, Joe Wilson (R-SC), along Liz Cheney (R-WY), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) have introduced the bipartisan Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.