Tennessee
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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will be among the speakers at Friday’s ribbon cutting for Northside Square, a major mixed-use project on the site of the former Northside High School. Congressman Cohen secured $1 million in fiscal year 2024 community project funding for Northside Square through the annual appropriations process to convert the vacant school into a community hub with affordable housing.
What: A ribbon cutting and celebration of Northside Square
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today testified before the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee about his priorities for Tennessee’s 9th Congressional District and for improvements to national safety programs he has long championed.
The Committee invited individual members to present their priorities during its “Member Day” hearing as it works on the surface transportation reauthorization bill. See that testimony here.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today addressed the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands, urging it to pass his Fort Pillow National Battlefield Park Study Act, a measure calling for a determination of the suitability of the existing state park as a unit of the National Park system.
The major Civil War battle at Fort Pillow in Lauderdale County on the Mississippi River north of Memphis was the site of a massacre of Union troops by Confederate forces in April 1864.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Tipton County will receive $146,880 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for debris removal following last April’s severe storms.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
“Last year’s tornadoes that swept through Tennessee, killing 10 people, hit Tipton County particularly hard. I am pleased to see this funding, which will help to put the remnants of those storms behind us.”
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have limited law enforcement authority beyond immigration issues and had no right to stop Renee Nicole Good before an ICE agent shot and killed her last week.
At a committee markup today, Congressman Cohen also condemned the Trump administration’s baseless characterization of the 37-yer-old American citizen and mother of three as a domestic terrorist.
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Tom McClintock (CA-5), the Co-Chairs of the Congressional Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus, today released the following statement:
“We stand in solidarity with the people of Iran as they courageously rise to demand their fundamental rights and a future rooted in freedom, dignity, and democratic governance. Across cities and communities, Iranians have made clear their aspiration for a democratic, non-nuclear republic that respects political pluralism, the rule of law, and basic human rights.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today wrote an eighth letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in an effort to understand Trump Administration immigration policy and the surge in employment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. The letter was sent a day after an ICE agent killed an American citizen in Minneapolis.
The letter reads in part:
Dear Secretary Noem:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted for a fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill to fund more than $3 million for U.S. Department of Justice-funded community projects in Memphis and Shelby County.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today addressed the shooting death of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Wednesday in Minneapolis at a committee markup.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement in response to today’s fatal shooting by an agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE):