Transportation
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WASHINGTON -- As airlines continue to fail consumers, with refund complaints still 11,000 percent above pre-pandemic levels, Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced their Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act, legislation to provide consumers an enforceable right to a full cash refund when airlines cancel their flight.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the City of Memphis will receive $14,819,865 and Shelby County will receive $1,641,575 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to meet a variety of housing and transportation needs.
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), the newly appointed Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today questioned expert witnesses at a full Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on Reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration. Congress periodically reauthorizes the FAA and other Federal civil aviation programs through an FAA reauthorization bill. The FAA was last reauthorized when Congress passed and the President signed the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the Memphis-based tri-state region will receive $14,744,843 in transit funding for Fiscal Year 2023 attributable to the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) which he supported and became law in November 2021. This funding will be distributed to states and communities in the coming weeks, and additional amounts will be awarded on a competitive basis throughout the year.
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.
WASHINGTON -- Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04) and Ro Khanna (CA-17) and Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) today reintroduced the Forbidding Airlines from Imposing Ridiculous (FAIR) Fees Act. This bicameral legislation would prohibit airlines from charging fees – including bag, seating, cancellation, and change fees – that are not reasonable or proportional to the costs of the services actually provided.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), recently sworn in to a ninth term, today was named the Ranking Member, or the top member of the minority Democratic Party, on the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee’s Aviation Subcommittee, where he will oversee policy on airports, air cargo, commercial airline service and passenger safety.
WASHINGTON – CongressmanSteve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Judiciary Committees, has reintroduced the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Second Screening Act.
MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, January 18, Congressman Cohen and leaders of Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital will discuss the two new ambulances for which he was able to secure funding this year through the congressional appropriations process. The media are welcome.
What: A press conference on two new ambulances secured for Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital