Millington

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), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today discussed the need for an increased focus on environmental justice by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) and greater efforts to restore the Mississippi River at a Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment hearing to consider priorities for the 2022 Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the first round of new federal transit funding under the historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) voted for from the entire Tennessee Congressional delegation, is heading to Memphis and Tennessee to strengthen public transportation systems, support transit jobs across the region and make urgently needed investments, including for new bus acquisitions, facility upg

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee asking him to seek emergency assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the damage done by a major ice storm last week that still has tens of thousands without electricity.

The letter reads in part:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $455,000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for research entitled "Bioactivities of pneumococcal cell wall in neuropathogenesis."

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today called attention to a comprehensive new guide from the Biden Administration to help Memphis and other local communities navigate all of the historic investments under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that only he and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) voted for from the entire Tennessee Congressional delegation.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County will receive $445,272 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Emergency Food and Shelter Program. The funding is part of a $530 million effort to address hunger paid for by both 2021 Fiscal Year appropriations and through the American Rescue Plan that Congressman Cohen voted for last March.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that Tennessee will receive historically high levels of funding for the repair, rehabilitation and replacement of its bridges this year and for the next five years because of President Biden's Infrastructure Law, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which only Congressman Cohen and Congressman Jim Cooper (TN-05) from the Tennessee Congressional delegationvoted for last year.