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As a fourth-generation Memphian, I have dedicated my life to public service in Memphis and Shelby County. My work has defined my life and affected the lives of people in Memphis, across Tennessee and now across America throughout my career in national, state and local politics.
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, and a longtime advocate of advancing aircraft safety, today wrote to Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Whitaker asking him to have current aircraft evacuation standards reevaluated in light of the January 2 Japan Airlines Flight 516 collision with a Japan Coast Guard plane.
The letter reads in part:
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) plans to commemorate Saturday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and will remember the horrific murder of six million Jewish people and others during the Holocaust.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $475,675 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study “Candidalysin: a key mediator of Candida vaginitis immunopathology.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that three Memphis-based arts organizations will receive $45,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Carpenter Art Garden will receive $10,000 to support the design and creation of a mural and a kinetic art installation. The Center for Transforming Communities will receive $10,000 to support the “Measuring Love Fellowship,” an arts research and multidisciplinary storytelling project.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Cohen learned of the passing of longtime Commercial Appeal journalist and editor Jerome Wright this morning and made the following statement:
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime member of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, has once again received a “100 +” on the Humane Society of the United States 2023 legislative scorecard. The recognition accounts for Congressman Cohen’s actions, including critical votes, advancing the humane treatment of animals.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $1,171,855 from the U.S. Department of Education to determine alternate means of measuring student performance based on scenario-based assessments.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants, for $245,700 each, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. One grant will support research in trivalent live attenuated vaccines and the other will support research on Streptococcus pneumoniae.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Regional One Health officials will hold a press conference on Tuesday, January 23, to discuss the $1 million he secured last year and the $2 million he has secured in the current fiscal year for Regional One. Congressman Cohen, as a Shelby County Commissioner, cast the decisive vote creating the Regional Medical Center at Memphis (“The Med”), now known as Regional One.