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[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that Shelby County has been awarded $1,473,378 in federal funding to help address HIV/AIDS and provide care for those living with HIV. This funding comes through the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program, which helps local governments provide HIV-related services to more than half a million people each year who do not have sufficient health care coverage or financial resources for coping with the disease.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) today applauded President Obama’s nomination of U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III to serve as District Court Judge for the Western District of Tennessee. The Congressman recommended Stanton to the President after convening a bipartisan, biracial screening committee of local attorneys. Mr. Stanton is a lifelong Memphian and graduate of Central High School who has served as U.S. Attorney for nearly 5 years.
Congressman Cohen has repeatedly called for Judiciary Committee hearing on police reform and the use of deadly force against minorities
[WASHINGTON, DC] – At a hearing of the full House Judiciary Committee that Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (TN-09) requested repeatedly in the months following Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, Congressman Cohen called for greater police accountability and reforms to deadly force policies that in recent months have left several young, unarmed African-American men dead at the hands of police.
Insurmountable student loan debt has been making headlines in recent years, but it’s not news to Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN). While a state senator in Tennessee, Cohen learned of the plight of a former intern who was in burdened with student loan debt. “I saw that and realized how unfair it was,” Cohen told Blue Nation Review. “It was stifling her life and her advancement.”
Cohen was one of the main architects of the Hope Lottery Scholarship, which has raised over $2 billion to help Tennessee students pay for college since it began in 2003.
Insurmountable student loan debt has been making headlines in recent years, but it’s not news to Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN). While a state senator in Tennessee, Cohen learned of the plight of a former intern who was in burdened with student loan debt. “I saw that and realized how unfair it was,” Cohen told Blue Nation Review. “It was stifling her life and her advancement.”
Cohen was one of the main architects of the Hope Lottery Scholarship, which has raised over $2 billion to help Tennessee students pay for college since it began in 2003.
Congressman is also leading bipartisan bill with Senators Cory Booker and Rand Paul to recognize medicinal marijuana nationwide
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today commended Senators Cory Gardner (R-CO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) along with Johnny Isakson (R-GA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Michael Bennet (D-CO) for introducing the bipartisan Therapeutic Hemp Medical Access Act of 2015.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – At the Shelby County Health Department’s 2015 Infant Mortality Summit this morning, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) discussed his efforts to reduce the rate of infant mortality in Memphis as well as highlighted a new health clinic in Raleigh funded in part by the Affordable Care Act. The Congressman also highlighted provisions of the Affordable Care Act that can help Memphians keep themselves, their families, and their communities healthy.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis was awarded a total of $1,885,417 in federal grant funding for six different research projects.
“These significant federal investments will help keep Memphis and the UT Health Science Center at the forefront of the medical research community,” said Congressman Cohen.
The following grants were awarded to UTHSC under today’s announcement: