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As a fourth-generation Memphian, I have dedicated my life to public service in Memphis and Shelby County. My work has defined my life and affected the lives of people in Memphis, across Tennessee and now across America throughout my career in national, state and local politics.
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, and the original co-sponsors of the Guaranteeing Oversight and Litigation on Doping (GOLD) Act, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Roger Wicker, Congressmen Joe Wilson, Richard Hudson, Michael C. Burgess, M.D., Tom Malinowski and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, released a joint statement on the ongoing doping scandal involving the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will host a virtual tax filing event with local taxpayer advocates from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Thursday, February 17. The event will discuss historic lower and middle class tax cuts and answer constituents' questions about filing taxes and maximizing refunds. It will be hosted on Zoom and live streamed on the Congressman's Facebook page.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today questioned expert witnesses at a Committee on Natural Resources legislative hearing on Chairman Raul M. Grijalva's H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice for All Act.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland with 16 other Members of Congress asking the Department of Justice to reinstate integrated employment guidance that was rescinded by Trump Administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The guidance outlines state and local governments' obligations to administer employment services in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's landmark 1999 Olmstead v.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Committee on Natural Resources, announced that Tennessee's wildlife agencies will share $40.1 million in Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration (WSFR) grants authorized with the passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Only Congressmen Cohen and Jim Cooper (TN-05) in the Tennessee Congressional delegation voted for the IIJA which President Biden signed into law in November.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a $611,610 grant from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled "CAREER: From slow to fast, micro to macro, single events to cascades: A multi-scale study of seismic event triggering in lab and nature." The work is directed by Assistant Professor Thomas Goebel, Ph.D., of the University's Center for Earthquake Research and Information (CERI).
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that Tennessee will receive $13,074,884 in the current fiscal year and $88,334,969 over five years after passage of the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Only Congressmen Cohen and Jim Cooper (TN-05) from the Tennessee delegation voted for the measure which President Biden signed into law in November.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) applauded the Senate Judiciary Committee's vote this morning to advance the nomination of Memphis lawyer Andre Mathis to become a judge on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. The vote was 12-10.
The court, based in Cincinnati, hears appeals in federal cases from Tennessee, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
WASHINGTON -- Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, and Earl Blumenauer (OR-03), a co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, today sent a letter to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and released the following statement
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $413,761 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct breast cancer research.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement: