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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Committee on Natural Resources and its Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife, today urged his colleagues to pass his H.R. 7398, the Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act. The measure would end the practice of rewarding hunters for killing animals on federally owned land in contests that advance no legitimate wildlife-management purposes.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime advocate of improving U.S. relations with Cuba, today co-led a letter with Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and 24 Congressional colleagues commending President Biden for reversing several ill-advised Trump Administration policies toward the island nation. The letter recommends the Biden Administration review U.S. policy toward Cuba to facilitate global vaccine equity and ensure that U.S.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $308,000 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences for research involving the rapamycin complex 1, a protein complex that controls protein synthesis.

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a grant of $691,425 from the National Cancer Institute for research on a rare soft tissue cancer known as rhabdomyosarcomas (RMS).

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County's Ryan White HIV/AIDS program will receive $1,013,563 from the Department of Health and Human Services.

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined Congressman Peter DeFazio (OR-04) and 17 other members in introducing the Social Security Expansion Act. The measure would increase benefits by $2,400 a year and fully fund the popular program past 2096 without raising taxes on over 93 percent of Americans.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today went to the House floor to denounce a Republican talking point suggesting that the Second Amendment right to bear arms, including assault rifles, is a "God-given right." The speech was in response to Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio and others in Wednesday's debate on the Protecting Our Kids Act which passed the House last night.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, tonight voted for the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2022, including two Memphis-centric projects that he proposed. The bill includes provisions to deauthorize the Wolf River to create a lake adjacent to the historic downtown Snuff District and to accommodate a floating entertainment dock at Cobblestone Landing.