Shelby County
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, called the Republican effort to hold President Biden’s ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer in contempt of Congress “a travesty of a mockery of a sham” and introduced an amendment calling attention to why they are seeking information from him: to create “cheap fake” political ads disparaging the President.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that nine more of his community projects he sought for the 9th Congressional District, worth $12,150,000, are included in the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Act released today.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced six of his 15 community funding projects are included in two Fiscal Year 2025 Appropriations Subcommittee bills that have been released so far with a dollar value of $4,991,405. See a listing below.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today spoke in favor of and then voted for the Water Resources Development Act of 2024.
The vote to move the measure to the House floor was 61 to 2.
In opening remarks on the bill, Congressman Cohen said in part:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the City of Memphis will receive a $21,832,817 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program to fill the final gaps in the Wolf River Greenway.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xiaolei Huang will receive a grant of $50,000 to develop an advanced artificial intelligence system for the diagnosis and management of headache disorders.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the City of Memphis will receive Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding of $1,374,457 for debris removal after the severe storms of July 18-21 last year that resulted in downed trees and other damage. The funding represents the 75 percent federal cost share of the debris removal and disposal effort. Congressman Cohen sought a disaster declaration following the storms on July 24, 2023.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, condemned the rationale for a hearing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that successfully prosecuted Donald Trump resulting in 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a relationship with a porn star and interfere with the 2016 election.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking House Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today chaired a commission hearing on political prisoners. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s 56-nation Parliamentary Assembly appointed Congressman Cohen as its Special Representative on Political Prisoners in July 2022 and reappointed him last September.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Rhodes College will receive a $502,946 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of concentrations of carbon dioxide on dimorphic fungi. The research, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biology Qian Shen, will also involve undergraduate students at LeMoyne-Owen College, and could lead to breakthroughs in combatting life-threatening fungal infections and reduce crop damage from fungal agents.