Transportation
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today applauded Boeing’s decision to overhaul its senior management, including the departure of its chief executive Dave Calhoun at the end of 2024 and its head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes Stan Deal immediately, in the wake of recent serious safety failures. Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Rick Crawford (AR-01), along with U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR), have introduced legislation to create a commemorative coin in remembrance of the greatest maritime disaster in U.S. history – the sinking of the Sultana steamboat off Memphis in 1865.
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Richard Hudson (NC-09) today announced the official relaunch of the Congressional Global Road Safety Caucus. The Caucus will continue to bring awareness to road safety initiatives and mobilize Congressional support to tackle the significant domestic and global health and safety crisis. Congressmen Hudson and Cohen will serve as Co-Chairs.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Memphis and Shelby County Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) will receive a Neighborhood Access and Equity (NAE) grant of $2,693,160 for the Over and Under I-40 project, in which the CRA will lead a community-driven planning effort to mitigate the impacts of Interstate 40 (I-40) for seven historically African American and disadvantaged North Memphis neighborhoods including Klondike, Smokey City, New Chicago, North Parkway-Forest, Speedway Terrace, Medical District and Crosstown.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Appropriations Committee’s announcement that his major community project funding priorities for Tennessee’s 9th 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: