Shelby County
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Representative from Memphis and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for a Department of Justice review of the expulsion of Tennessee state Representatives Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson, and a failed vote to expel Representative Gloria Johnson. The letter reads in part:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $391,858 from the National Science Foundation for a project entitled “Collaborative Research: Costs and Trade-offs of Phenotypically Flexible Responses to Winter Temperature Variability in Birds.” The research is under the direction of College of Health Sciences Assistant Professor Yufeng Zhang.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), who served in the state legislature for 24 years before being elected to Congress in 2006, today attended the Shelby County Commission Special Meeting called to reinstate State Representative Justin J. Pearson, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Joe Wilson (SC-02), the Ranking Member and Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, today wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken seeking the State Department’s assistance in freeing Washington Post journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza, currently unlawfully detained in Russia by the Putin regime.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today closely followed the debate and vote of the Tennessee General Assembly expelling state Representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones and its failure to expel Representative Gloria Johnson based on their breach of decorum in the House Chamber last week, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has written Tennessee House of Representatives Speaker Cameron Sexton asking him to consider alternatives to expulsion for the three state Representatives involved in last week’s breach of decorum in the House Chamber.
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has been following the controversy over three Tennessee state House members’ breach of decorum and chamber rules following last week’s Covenant School shootings, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today expressed his disappointment at the State of Tennessee’s failure to get recertified for Title X funding, which will result in the loss of millions in funding for birth control, pregnancy testing, and basic infertility services for low-income and uninsured individuals. He made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that Tri-State Community Health Center will receive $1,416,200 and Memphis Health Center will receive $5,370,495 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) is closely monitoring reports of serious damage from overnight storms affecting Covington, and made the following statement: