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WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, tonight addressed the House of Representatives and condemned the politicized rulings that he said have "diminished" the Supreme Court's stature.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today addressed the House of Representatives as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization involving Mississippi's restrictive abortion law.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today went to the floor to encourage bipartisan support for the Build Back Better social and climate infrastructure bill and to praise President Biden's leadership.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) expressed his condolences at the passing of the Reverend H.O. Kneeland, and made the following statement:
Congressman Cohen Wishes All a Safe Thanksgiving
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen released the following statement commemorating this year's Thanksgiving holiday:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Hope House Day Care Center will receive a $2,134,046 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant from its Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS Program.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – In advance of the Thanksgiving holiday, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that U.S. Treasury Department figures indicate an estimated 148,000 children in Tennessee's 9th Congressional District qualified for the enhanced Child Tax Credit (CTC) authorized by the American Rescue Plan and received $38.2 million in November alone.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today led a letter to President Biden, urging him to enforce his Executive Order to eliminate the use of privately operated detention facilities by the Bureau of Prisons and U.S. Marshals Service. This comes after new efforts of private prison companies to circumvent the Executive Order and retain federal prison contracts have surfaced.
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) led a letter to President Biden today urging his administration to begin accepting applications for commutations from all detainees released to home confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who has a long history of attempting to make the Tennessee Valley Authority accountable to the communities it serves, today wrote to the utility's President and CEO Jeffrey Lyash to demand answers about TVA's decision to dump toxic coal ash at a landfill in Whitehaven.