Shelby County
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, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced $1,788,116 in federal funding for Christ Community Health Services to help train more primary care doctors and increase access to healthcare services in the Memphis area. This funding comes through the Health Resource and Services Administration’s (HRSA) $230 million nationwide Teaching Health Center Graduate Medical Education program, which was created as part of President Obama’s healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act that Congressman Cohen sponsored and supported.
Dear Friend,
Next Friday from 10am to 1pm, my office will hold “Congress On Your Corner” office hours at the Benjamin L. Hooks Library. If you have questions or problems with Social Security, Medicare, FHA, the VA or any other federal agencies, my staff will be on hand to answer questions and provide assistance. We hope to see you there.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement about several recent fires at historically black churches in states across the South, including Tennessee:
“I am very concerned with the recent string of fires at black churches across the South. We must fully and quickly investigate them and bring any responsible parties to justice. Places of worship should be sacred, and those who seek to destroy them cannot be tolerated by our society.”
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s newly-proposed rule that would help ensure 5 million lower-income and middle-class Americans receive fair compensation for their overtime hours.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, today announced two significant federal grants totaling $4,359,985 in funding for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This funding will be used in large part to create a new Center for Precision Medicine in Leukemia (CPML), while $1,221,256 of it will be used for a Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) welcomed recent White Station High School graduate Aylen Mercado to his Capitol Hill office to congratulate the student on winning this year’s Congressional Art Competition. As the Ninth District’s winner, Ms. Mercado’s piece, a mixed media of chalk pasted on black paper entitled “A Moment in the Life of a Memphis Bus Rider,” will hang in public view on Capitol Hill for the next year. A photo of Ms.
Dear Friend,
I am writing you from Charleston, South Carolina, where I joined President Obama and Members of Congress today in paying my respects to the victims of the Charleston Church shooting. This week, we saw a number of changes in our country, the Supreme Court ruled that Memphians can keep the healthcare subsidies they receive through the Affordable Care Act and also ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in all 50 states, and Governor Haslam called for the Confederate flag to be removed from Tennessee license plates.
[CHARLESTON, SC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, joined President Barack Obama and a Congressional delegation including several members of the Congressional Black Caucus at this morning’s funeral service for the late Reverend Honorable Clementa C. Pinckney, a member of the South Carolina Senate and pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the service, Congressman Cohen issued the following statement:
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, issued the following statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v Hodges ruling that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry and have their marriages recognized by states. This ruling also decides the Tanko v. Haslam case in which a Memphis couple, Thom Kostura and Ijpe DeKoe (an Army Reserve sergeant), married in New York and then relocated—on military orders—to Memphis.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell ruling that upheld the health insurance subsidies provided to millions of Americans through the Affordable Care Act: