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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the City of Memphis will receive a $21,832,817 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program to fill the final gaps in the Wolf River Greenway.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Xiaolei Huang will receive a grant of $50,000 to develop an advanced artificial intelligence system for the diagnosis and management of headache disorders.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the City of Memphis will receive Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding of $1,374,457 for debris removal after the severe storms of July 18-21 last year that resulted in downed trees and other damage. The funding represents the 75 percent federal cost share of the debris removal and disposal effort. Congressman Cohen sought a disaster declaration following the storms on July 24, 2023.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, condemned the rationale for a hearing on the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office that successfully prosecuted Donald Trump resulting in 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover up a relationship with a porn star and interfere with the 2016 election.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking House Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today chaired a commission hearing on political prisoners. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s 56-nation Parliamentary Assembly appointed Congressman Cohen as its Special Representative on Political Prisoners in July 2022 and reappointed him last September.
WASHINGTON --On the indictment of the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich by the Russian authorities, the Helsinki Commission Ranking Member and OSCE PA Special Representative on Political Prisoners Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) issued the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Rhodes College will receive a $502,946 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of concentrations of carbon dioxide on dimorphic fungi. The research, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Biology Qian Shen, will also involve undergraduate students at LeMoyne-Owen College, and could lead to breakthroughs in combatting life-threatening fungal infections and reduce crop damage from fungal agents.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the unanimous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court that keeps access to the widely used abortion medication mifepristone legal. The court ruled that the challenging antiabortion doctors did not have standing to pursue the case.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) went to the House floor Tuesday evening to recall the Reverend James Lawson who passed on Sunday at the age of 95.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, spoke during today’s debate against an effort by partisan Republicans to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, and plans to vote against the measure when it comes up for a vote this afternoon.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part: