Tennessee
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) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $409,500 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for a project entitled “Metabolic checkpoint in dendritic cell subsets and adaptive immunity.”
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Shelby County will receive $2,058,400 for its Ryan White HIV Emergency Relief program from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Tipton County Board of Education will receive $17,338,355 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for replacement of Crestview Middle School in Covington destroyed in the storms and tornadoes of March of last year. Part of the restoration will be covered by an additional $10.3 million in insurance payouts.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) plans to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday with continued work toward King’s goals and contemplation of what might have been. He made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today applauded the Biden Administration decision to shorten the path to student debt cancellation under the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Program. Those students who borrowed less than $12,000 and have been in repayment for 10 years will have their entire debt cancelled next month without taking any action. The decision accelerates the SAVE deadlines by six months, making life-changing opportunities for student borrowers.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) asked the Department of Justice and its COPS program to come to Memphis in early September 2022 after the abduction and murder of St. Mary’s kindergarten teacher Eliza Fletcher and, days later, the shooting rampage by Ezekiel Kelly, some of which was livestreamed. Congressman Cohen requested federal resources to support and improve the Memphis Police Department.
WASHINGTON – Three years ago to the day that Donald Trump slapped Cuba with the designation of a State Sponsor of Terrorism as he was leaving the White House, Congressmen Steve Cohen today wrote to President Biden asking him to lift the resulting unnecessary economic sanctions. Congressman Cohen traveled to Cuba in 2016 with President Obama after he lifted sanctions and welcomed interaction with the Cuban people.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, engaged in the debate over whether Hunter Biden should be cited for contempt of Congress for failure to agree to a deposition behind closed doors while offering to testify in public. Several Committee members noted that Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan defied a Congressional subpoena to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol without consequence.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the Brooks Museum of Art will receive a $500,000 matching infrastructure and capacity challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to generate private support for the ongoing move of the museum from Midtown to Downtown.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a longtime advocate of lifting regulatory restrictions on marijuana, today wrote to Drug Enforcement Administrator Anne Milgram asking her to act expeditiously on an August 29 Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommendation to reschedule marijuana to Schedule 3 under the Controlled Substances Act.