Transportation
Information regarding my stance on Transportation issues.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today marked the anniversary of President Biden’s signing of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Congressman Cohen attended the White House signing ceremony and noted that, to date, over $3.6 billion in IIJA funding has been announced and is headed to Tennessee.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive a rebate of up to $6,715,000 to replace 17 existing school buses with clean and zero-emission (ZE) models to reduce harmful emissions from older, dirtier buses.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Aviation, today submitted a joint comment letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) seeking to ensure that it takes into consideration the demographics of all members of the flying public before promulgating a rule on minimum seat dimensions for airplane seats that are necessary for passenger safety.
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.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a vocal critic of the Tennessee Valley Authority, today introduced the TVA Reform and Consumer Protection Act that would allow greater competition inside and outside its electricity service territory by eliminating the “fence,” lowering costs to ratepayers, and subjecting the federally owned utility to much needed oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, took time to advocate for a Memphis-to-Nashville Amtrak route at a hearing on “Investing in our Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure and Workers: Why it Matters.”
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Aviation, today applauded the $1 million fine assessed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg for misleading investors after two crashes of the 737 Max airliner in Indonesia and Ethiopia that together killed 346 people.
Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are leading their colleagues in a bicameral letter expressing their serious concerns regarding the final rule on rear underride protection recently issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on June 30th.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) tonight commended FedEx founder Fred Smith and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Taylor Branch and Isabel Wilkerson on being named the 2022 winners of the National Civil Rights Museum's prestigious Freedom Award.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will hold a press conference with Federal Transit Administration Administrator Nuria Fernandez, Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) CEO Gary Rosenfeld and local elected officials to discuss two recently announced Department of Transportation grants totaling $76.3 million to revitalize the city's bus system.