Transportation

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Appropriations Committee’s announcement that his major community project funding priorities for Tennessee’s 9^th Congressional District are included in the first appropriations government funding packages to be voted on later this week.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced the $7,294,019 allocated for the Memphis-based tri-state region from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). The funding is the result of investments authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that only Congressman Cohen among current members of the Tennessee Congressional delegation supported. The amount represents 2024 Fiscal Year spending from October 1 through March 1, 2024.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today spoke from the House floor in favor of another short-term extension of Federal Aviation Administration programs and authorities. However, he also noted that continued short-term extensions of the FAA’s existing authorities postpones implementation of carefully drafted legislation intended to address a host of aviation priorities for the next five years.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today attended the White House announcement of a U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed rule with DOT Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Assistant to the President and White House Office of Public Engagement Director Stephen Benjamin, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth, and advocates for people with disabilities, aviation workers, and other stakeholders.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will host a Federal Procurement Fair on Tuesday, February 27, to help local entrepreneurs navigate contracting with federal government agencies.

What: A Federal Procurement Fair with federal government contractors

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) applauded the selection of his former Washington-based transportation staffer Michael Fulton as the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON - Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) and Chairman Garret Graves (R-LA) led a bipartisan group of House Members in sending a letter to Michael Whitaker, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), encouraging the FAA to modernize its mental health protocols to ensure aviation professionals can obtain mental health care in a timely and efficient manner.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, today expressed a need for additional oversight and accountability over Boeing and pushed for the passage of a long-term FAA reauthorization bill at a hearing on “The State of American Aviation and the Federal Aviation Administration” with FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker.