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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission, today wrote to President Biden to encourage him to do everything in his power to secure the release of Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan and Vladimir Kara-Murza from Russian detention.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Today, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Co-Chairman Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Jim Cooper (TN-05) today applauded the Biden Administration's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for asking Tennessee to rethink major changes that would have turned Tennessee's Medicaid program, known as TennCare, into a block grant.
WASHINGTON – In advance of Monday's observance of America's 246th birthday, Congressman Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $500,500 and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $308,000, both to study tauopathies. The grants are from the National Institute on Aging. Tauopathies are a group of progressive neurodegenerative disorders defined by the presence of tau protein aggregates in the brain.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, noted Justice Stephen Breyer's announcement that he will retire at noon today, as the Supreme Court completes its term, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $999,861 for nursing education, practice, quality and retention from the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of U.S. Health Resources and Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $39,786 from the National Science Foundation supporting a project entitled "Collaborative Research: P2C2 – Medieval to Modern Climate Variability and Climate Change in the Great Plains" under the direction of Earth Sciences Professor Dorian Burnette.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, has introduced a resolution condemning Russian actions in Ukraine as a genocide under applicable international laws.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted on compromise gun legislation after it passed the Senate with Republican support.
The vote on passage was 234 to 193.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: