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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Russell Vought, the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), with concern at the damage done by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) after mass dismissals of the bureau’s personnel.
The letter seeks answers to a series of questions, including “When do you anticipate CFPB investigations resuming?”
The letter reads in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today reintroduced the Baseball Diplomacy Act to eliminate barriers to Cuban athletes entering the U.S. on non-immigrant visas during the baseball season and then returning home when the season ends. The measure would allow players to retain their Cuban citizenship and return to Cuba with their earnings, rather than having to renounce their citizenship and abandon their families to play baseball in the United States.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) was named the fifth most effective Democratic member of the 118th Congress (2022-2025) today by the Center for Effective Lawmaking. The assessment is made in a report by the Center’s Co-Directors, Craig Volden of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia, and Alan Wiseman of the Department of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Congressman Cohen is identified by the Center as ideologically “liberal” in his voting pattern.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today introduced the Mobility Means Freedom Tax Credit Act to provide a 50 percent tax credit in the out-of-pocket expense of up to three mobility devices a year. The tax credit would apply to wheelchairs, braces, walkers, crutches, orthotics and prosthetics that help the physically disabled remain mobile.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking House Member of the Helsinki Commission and a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. withdrawal from an ongoing investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) tonight held an in-person Town Hall meeting with nearly 900 constituents with special guest Max Richtman, President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare (NCPSSM).
More than 800 people crowded into the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church sanctuary to hear a lively discussion of reactions to the Trump-Musk transformation of the federal government and its workforce by what are clearly illegal and unconstitutional actions.
WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1), and Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5) today reintroduced the Cerebral Palsy Research Program Authorization Act to create a cerebral palsy research program to investigate prevention, diagnosis, treatment and the societal costs of cerebral palsy, the most prevalent life-long physical disability.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the House Ranking Member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today introduced the America First Equipment and Information Act. The measure would prohibit arms sales, trades or loans of weapons to the Russian Federation, and would ban intelligence sharing.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS - Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold an in-person town hall meeting on Tuesday, March 18, between 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church to answer constituents’ questions and listen to their thoughts as the Trump-Musk Administration enters its ninth week. The news media are invited to attend.
What: An in-person Town Hall Meeting for 9th Congressional District constituents
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), who voted against a disastrous continuing resolution to fund federal government programs through September 30 on Tuesday evening, made the following statement after the Senate voted to pass the same measure on a 54-46 vote on Friday night: