Tennessee

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today cheered the announcement that Elon Musk’s xAI company will be building the largest and most powerful supercomputer in history – the Gigafactory of Compute -- in the former Electrolux oven factory in Southwest Memphis, and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN), the Ranking House Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), also known as the Helsinki Commission, today discussed the decline in democratic norms under the Georgian Dream Party.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $2,340,000 from the National Science Foundation for a research project entitled “US-UK-China Collab: Understanding the Impact of Poultry Vaccination on H5Nx Avian Influenza Virus Evolution and Ecosystem Dynamics.” The research is under the direction of principal investigator Richard Webby and co-principal investigators Justin Bahl and Nicolas Wu.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today had the opportunity to discuss Memphis’ violent crime problem and solutions with Attorney General Merrick Garland at an oversight hearing. Congressman Cohen noted that Memphis was the second city to join the Violent Crime Initiative which increases federal resources in specific communities.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced two National Institutes of Health grants totaling $836,990 to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC).

WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today attended and spoke at the Washington Dialogue, a historic forum at the U.S. Institute of Peace Headquarters. The Washington Dialogue highlighted Russian voices that oppose Putin’s war.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $491,400 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study “transcriptional and metabolic heterogeneity in T cell differentiation.”

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Equity Act, which would update the current U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) CDBG funding criteria and adopt a single formula for grants based on factors reflecting current needs.