Memphis

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today attended the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) responded to President Trump's final outrage in office by condemning his pardons of the corrupt and well-connected. Congressman Cohen is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and has introduced three Constitutional Amendments since October 2017 to limit the pardon power, most recently on the first day of the new Congress on January 3. The proposed Constitutional

Amendment introduced this year would forbid pardons given with corrupt intent.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today condemned the Trump administration's politicization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Delivery of surplus agricultural products through the food box program designed to help needy families has included messages claiming credit from President Trump.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, today expressed his appreciation and gratitude for the work of the U.S. Capitol Police, National Guard troops and federal and local law enforcement officials in ensuring the safety of the President-elect and Vice President-elect, Members of Congress, dignitaries and the public in preparation for Wednesday's historic Inaugural events.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced The Living Wage Now Act today, a measure to immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) plans to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday on Friday and the National Holiday and Day of Service in his honor on Monday by encouraging everyone to recall his prescient words delivered in Memphis the night before he was killed: "We have an opportunity to make America a better nation."

Congressman Cohen noted that, in normal, non-pandemic times, he would eagerly participate in crowded, King-inspired public events this weekend but that this year requires social distancing and limited crowd sizes.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has written to President-Elect Joe Biden to express his concern over the Trump Administration's misguided decision to allow Tennessee to fund its Medicaid program, known as TennCare, through a block grant. In his letter, Congressman Cohen asks that the new Biden Administration reverse the decision to prevent unnecessary hardship for some of the state's most vulnerable residents.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today voted to impeach President Trump for high crimes and misdemeanors for the second time. Congressman Cohen led an early effort to impeach Trump by introducing five Articles of Impeachment on November 15, 2017, and voted to impeach Trump for the first time on December 18, 2019 but the Senate failed to convict him at trial.