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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has been following the controversy over three Tennessee state House members’ breach of decorum and chamber rules following last week’s Covenant School shootings, and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today expressed his disappointment at the State of Tennessee’s failure to get recertified for Title X funding, which will result in the loss of millions in funding for birth control, pregnancy testing, and basic infertility services for low-income and uninsured individuals. He made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that Tri-State Community Health Center will receive $1,416,200 and Memphis Health Center will receive $5,370,495 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), whose newly redrawn district includes parts of Tipton County badly damaged by the weekend storms, vowed that he will work to see federal disaster assistance is made readily available. He noted that both Crestview Elementary and Middle Schools suffered destructive winds from a likely tornado, and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) is closely monitoring reports of serious damage from overnight storms affecting Covington, and made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today questioned expert witnesses at a hearing on “Harnessing the Evolution of Flight to Deliver for the American People.” The hearing was the fourth in a series reviewing the reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, and Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), the Commission’s Chairman, today reintroduced a resolution calling for the removal of Russia from the U.N. Security Council. The leaders of what is also known as the Helsinki Commission referred to Russia’s ongoing and unjustified aggression in Ukraine as their rationale.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the State of Tennessee’s Department of Environment and Conservation will be receiving $8.6 million to reclaim abandoned coal mines through the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $682,433 grant from the National Cancer Institute for a project titled “Sustainability determinants of an intervention to identify clinical deterioration and improve childhood cancer survival in low-resource hospitals.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County homelessness programs will receive $6,832,309 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Continuum of Care Competition Awards Program. The state of Tennessee will receive $27,094,890 under the program which is providing $2.8 billion nationwide, according to an announcement today by HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge.