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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today noted that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced it is reviewing its own efforts in addressing conditions at the Peppertree Apartments in Memphis after longstanding complaints, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath’s Early Head Start programs will receive $1,284,763 and the Shelby County Board of Education will receive $13,360,627 for Head Start programs from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration of Children and Families.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, legislation that would direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a resource study to determine whether the location of an infamous massacre of Black Union soldiers in the waning months of the Civil War qualify it as a National Park Service site.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the ranking member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Aviation Subcommittee, today announced that Memphis International Airport will receive a $14.8 million investment from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to modernize its 60-year-old terminal facilities and ensure modern day code compliance. The phased terminal development projects would ensure seismic resiliency and enhance ADA access.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, today announced that the City of Memphis will receive a Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) Grant of $640,000 for preparation of a comprehensive “Safe Streets for All” plan.
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
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee seeking emergency disaster assistance after recent winter storms did serious damage in Shelby County. The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON– Today, Congressman Cohen voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, known as an omnibus, to keep the government open and make transformative long-term investments at the local and national level.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen released the following statement commemorating this year’s Veterans Day:
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.