Science and Technology
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Memphis Health Center Inc. will receive a grant of $2,685,248 to provide mental health and substance abuse services to patients from June 1, 2025 to May 31, 2026 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin requesting a list of companies operating in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District which have requested a Presidential Exemption under the Clean Air Act.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $465,506 from the National Cancer Institute to study epigenetic reprogramming of T cell exhaustion to enhance tumor immunotherapy.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
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:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), who voted against a disastrous continuing resolution to fund federal government programs through September 30 on Tuesday evening, made the following statement after the Senate voted to pass the same measure on a 54-46 vote on Friday night:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today called for urgent action to address the ongoing air traffic control staffing shortage and implementation of key safety provisions in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024 at a hearing titled “America Builds: Air Traffic Control System Infrastructure and Staffing.”
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The first, an $894,735 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is for research into a novel imaging agent to delineate osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease. The second, a $277,500 grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), is for research related to epilepsy.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight held a telephone town hall meeting to discuss issues on the minds of his constituents as the second month of the tumultuous second Trump term got under way with slashes in federal jobs and programs and harm to the reputation of the United States in the world.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a polio survivor and an advocate of vaccine immunization, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on a 52-48 vote.
“It is a violation of the public’s trust to confirm the appointment of a man not capable of protecting the nation’s – and the world’s – public health. A vaccine denier with little knowledge of the vast array of responsibilities he has now been given is the wrong person for this job.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today condemned a Trump Administration proposal to cap facilities and administrative cost reimbursements to 15 percent of total research project costs on National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awards to biomedical research institutions. The proposal would be devastating to Tennessee universities and research organizations. In 2023, Tennessee received about $770 million in funding from the NIH. The proposed reduction would result in a roughly $250 million annual loss to institutions in the state.