Shelby County

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive two grants totaling $996,893 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). 

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will commemorate the 58^th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Saturday with a solemn reflection on what might have been, and made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today condemned President Trump’s executive order on Tuesday that seeks to interfere with state election laws and procedures involving the eligibility of voters in federal elections.

The order purports to direct the Department of Homeland Security to create a “state citizenship list” based on data from citizenship and naturalization records, Social Security records and other federal databases.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) made the following statement regarding Saturday’s “No Kings” Rally at Church Park and the subsequent march involving police intervention:

MEMPHIS – In 2022, President Biden signed into law the Evaluating Lynching Locations (or ELL) for National Park Sites Act, named in part in memory of Ell Persons, lynched by a Memphis mob in 1917. The legislation Congressman Cohen introduced calls upon the National Park Service (NPS) to evaluate the presumed historic sites of lynchings in the South within 100 miles of Memphis with the purpose of designating them as national historic sites. The legislation also solicits public comment on proposed lynching location sites with Friday, April 3, as a deadline. 

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Tennessee Department of Transportation Commissioner Will Reid urging him to prioritize the long overdue completion of repairs to Elvis Presley Boulevard. In his letter, the Congressman noted that continued delays and uncertainty have dragged this project on for over a decade. He emphasized the importance of Elvis Presley Boulevard for Whitehaven residents and the entire Memphis area.

The letter reads in part:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight released a statement after U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington ruled that construction of a White House ballroom must cease until President Trump receives Congressional approval after demolishing the East Wing. The statement reads:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a Co-Chairman of the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, today wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administrator Terrance C. Cole seeking clarity on two drug policy implementation issues: rescheduling marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act and implementing the scientific provisions of the Halt All Lethal Trafficking (HALT) in Fentanyl Act.