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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) went to the well of the House today to condemn the lack of diversity in President Trump's appointments to the federal judiciary, to his cabinet and to the Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors.

"I'm concerned about the lack of diversity, the lack of care about diversity, that this Administration shows in its appointments and in its actions," he said. "In the federal judiciary, the President has nominated approximately 250 judges, six of whom are African American. That's a disturbing and chilling number."

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

St. Jude will receive $163,068 from the Department's Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education Payment Program. UTHSC will receive $512,419 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases for research on neonatal urinary tract obstructions.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted for and the House passed the PAWS for Veterans Therapy Act. The measure calls for the Veterans Administration to establish a five-year pilot program to make grants available to appropriate non-governmental entities for the purpose of assessing the effectiveness of addressing post-deployment mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms through a therapeutic medium of training service dogs for veterans with disabilities.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee that produced the two articles of impeachment against President Trump, expressed disappointment that the Senate did not convict him in its historic votes today.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee which has oversight of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) today wrote to President Trump to criticize the lack of diversity in his nominations to the TVA's board of directors and to urge him to nominate minority and more women candidates to make it representative of the region it serves.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, today questioned FBI Director Christopher Wray at an oversight hearing on the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) marked the start of Black History Month today and made the following statement:

"We begin our February commemoration of Black History Month by remembering the loss of Memphis Sanitation Workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker who were crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to avoid a downpour, sparking the 1968 strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to town to be felled by an assassin's bullet.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that he will not attend the State of the Union address by President Trump on Tuesday night, just as he has refrained from attending prior Trump State of the Union addresses and his inauguration.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement: