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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) attended the meeting of FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok with House Judiciary Committee Members on Wednesday and released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, expressed unease at today's announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy plans to retire at the end of July because of its obvious political result. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has already said a nominee will be considered this fall. Congressman Cohen released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, said today's predictable 5-4 ruling against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) will have the effect of diminishing wages for working- and middle-class Americans, furthering income inequality, and is a direct result of the failure of the U.S. Senate to confirm President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. He made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, expressed frustration tonight that his effort to amend another spending bill with language prohibiting federal spending at businesses owned by President Trump, this time by Department of Defense programs, was prevented from consideration by the House Majority.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution, introduced an amendment today during a committee proceeding to obtain documents from the Department of Justice relating to foreign investments in businesses owned by President Trump, as well as those relating to efforts by Felix Sater, Michael Cohen and Ivanka Trump to expand Trump Organization's holdings in Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, including efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. His amendment was offered to H Res.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, released the following statement after yet another 5-4 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, this one upholding President Trump's Muslim travel ban:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, released the following statement in response to today's 5-4 ruling in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra:
Cohen Announces Nearly Half a Million Dollars in St. Jude Funding
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has awarded $493,625 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for research regarding schizophrenia.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today introduced amendments to the annual Department of Defense spending bill for Fiscal Year 2019 to prohibit the federal government from spending money at businesses owned by President Trump.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced legislation to address America's unacceptably high infant mortality rate with concrete measures in the Nationally Enhancing the Wellbeing of Babies through Outreach and Research Now (NEWBORN) Act.