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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and its Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, on Tuesday questioned expert witnesses at a hearing on "Reimagining Public Safety in the COVID-19 Era."
Congressman Cohen asked Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner about his city's use of the $350 billion authorized for police funding in the American Rescue Plan, noting that no Republican members of Congress voted for the measure. Houston received $45 million of that funding to augment its efforts, Turner said.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $557,841 grant from the National Cancer Institute for research entitled "Measuring Lifelong Multimorbidity with Patient Perspectives: Implementing and Visualizing the Cumulative Burden Methodology Across Cohorts."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced a $179,375 grant to the University of Memphis from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke for research on neurological disorders.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today voted on a resolution supporting the people of Ukraine.
The vote was 426 to 3.
After the vote, Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, and the Commission's Ranking Member, Joe Wilson (R-SC), along Liz Cheney (R-WY), Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), Mike Waltz (R-FL) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) have introduced the bipartisan Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today presided at a hearing on "Discrimination and the Civil Rights of the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian American Communities."
In his opening statement, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted for and the House passed the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, making lynching for the first time a federal crime. Emmett Till was a Chicago teenager lynched in Money, Mississippi, not far south of Memphis, in 1955.
The vote was 422 to 3.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Helsinki Commission, went to the floor of the House today to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He described leading last week's Helsinki Commission-sponsored fact-finding and supportive mission to Lithuania and to the Winter Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Parliamentary Assembly in Austria, and he called out the Russia leader for the attack.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced a bill to name the VA Medical Center in Memphis for Lt. Col. Luke J. Weathers Jr., a heroic fighter pilot and member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
WASHINGTON -- Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) today introduced legislation to prohibit discriminatory practices against individuals with disabilities who need Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS).