Government Reform

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the ranking member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today addressed efforts to improve passenger safety and comfort at a hearing on “Navigating the Comprehensive Passenger Experience.” The hearing was the third held this year on the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who represents Memphis in the House of Representatives and is a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today welcomed the decision by the Department of Justice to review the Memphis Police Department’s policy and practice on the use of force. Trye Nichols died after a brutal encounter with Memphis police on January 7, 2023. 

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Curb Leaders from Electioneering with Autographs on National (CLEAN) Checks Act, a measure prohibiting the manipulation of the public’s financial lifeline for a politician’s political gain. Until President Trump placed his name on every COVID-19 pandemic relief check, no President had so blatantly sought to take misplaced credit for federal assistance.

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 – Representatives Steve Cohen, André Carson, Barbara Lee, Danny K. Davis, Donald M. Payne Jr., Gwen Moore, and Henry C. “Hank” Johnson Jr. today reintroduced a measure to remove the name of longtime Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover from the FBI headquarters building in downtown Washington, D.C.

The measure is co-sponsored by an additional 13 members of Congress.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Comptroller General Gene L. Dodaro of the U.S. Government Accountability Office seeking a review of the federal government’s costs associated with treating patients who used asbestos-contaminated Johnson & Johnson baby powder and became ill because of their exposure to this known carcinogen.

The letter reads in part:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will attend this evening’s State of the Union address by President Biden as the nation continues to register major progress in employment, rising wages, investments in infrastructure, ending the COVID-19 pandemic, slowing inflation, and addressing domestic and international threats to democracy. Prior to the President’s remarks, Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

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.