Shelby County
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight wrote Governor Bill Lee a letter urging him to have the State of Tennessee apply for Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (Summer EBT) funding for a Summer U.S. Agriculture Food Assistance Program for an estimated 700,000 children and not fail to apply for it as he did last year.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer EBT program provides $120 in food benefits to support school-aged children who don’t have access to free or low-cost school meals during summer months.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets for All (SS4A) Program has awarded two grants totaling $6,891,760 to the Memphis Fire Department and the MidSouth Development District.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today urged President Donald Trump to reject the Kennedy Center Board’s reported decision to rename the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” calling the move inappropriate, divisive, and disrespectful to history.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today reintroduced the Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act, legislation to help American families cover the cost of eliminating lead from their homes. The Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act would significantly broaden the national response to this threat to public health by providing refundable tax credits for homeowners, landlords, and tenants to remove lead from homes.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today questioned expert witnesses on organized retail crime at a hearing in the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime.
In his opening statement, Congressman Cohen described the breadth of organized retail crime and its impact on Memphis, in particular, as a transportation and logistics hub. He also discussed the importance of a carefully calibrated federal policy that respects state and local public safety efforts.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned expert witnesses before its Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government at a hearing entitled “Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC’s Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.”
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Joe Wilson (SC-2) and Senators Peter Welch of Vermont and John Curtis of Utah today welcomed the release of 123 political prisoners held by Belarusian strongman Aleksandr Lukashenka. Congressman Cohen, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative on Political Prisoners, had sought the release of several opposition leaders held since a 2020 crackdown after a rigged election.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the House Ranking Member of the Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, today went to the House floor to denounce the Trump administration’s recently published National Security Strategy. In his remarks, he said in part:
“At the end of last week, President Trump published his National Security Strategy. It could have been called his National Insecurity Strategy. To say it’s bad is an understatement. It’s disastrous.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) spoke from the House floor and later voted against the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today (PERMIT) Act after three amendments he proposed to better protect the Memphis water supply were rejected by the Rules Committee. The measure passed on a 221 to 205 vote.
Congressman Cohen’s proposed amendments would have:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee and a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, today questioned an expert witness in an oversight hearing on reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s (FISA) Section 702 program which expires in April. His questions to Liza Goitein, the senior director for Liberty and National Security at the Brennan Center for Justice, focused on the impact of artificial intelligence in information gathering and the consistency of FISA court rulings.