Memphis
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research entitled "Bioactivities of pneumococcal cell wall in neuropathogenesis."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today called attention to a comprehensive new guide from the Biden Administration to help Memphis and other local communities navigate all of the historic investments under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) voted for from the entire Tennessee Congressional delegation.
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today released the following statement to commemorate Black History Month, which is observed each February:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and Chairman of its Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today condemned the recent vandalization of a monument to Major League Baseball's first Black player, civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson, at his birthplace in southwest Georgia.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who as a state senator sponsored and assured the passage of a bill creating the Tennessee Holocaust Commission in 1984, today condemned the decision by the McMinn County School Board to ban Maus, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman's graphic novel about the Holocaust.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today made the following statement about International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is Thursday, January 27:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today responded to the decision by Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) not to seek re-election with the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that a Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program operated by the Community Alliance for the Homeless will receive an additional $86,929 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), raising the total award to $3,819,948. The original grant award was announced in September.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, today questioned expert witnesses at a hearing entitled "The First Step Act, The Pandemic, and Compassionate Release: What Are the Next Steps for the Federal Bureau of Prisons?"
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $3,806,815 from the National Science Foundation for scholarships to train a regional cybersecurity workforce. The project, "CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Developing the Cybersecurity Workforce in West Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas," is under the direction of Department of Computer Science Assistant Professor Kan Yang.