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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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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Orion Federal Credit Union, a non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI), will receive $105 million from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Emergency Capital Investment Program. The credit union will also receive $213,497 from Treasury’s CDFI Fund Small Dollar Loan Program.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and its Subcommittee on Aviation, today applauded the $1 million fine assessed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against former Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg for misleading investors after two crashes of the 737 Max airliner in Indonesia and Ethiopia that together killed 346 people.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s special representative for political prisoners, today condemned the Iranian response to protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in custody after being arrested by Iran’s Morality Police for allegedly violating strict hijab rules.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Christian Brothers University will receive a $749,877 grant from the National Science Foundation to help it retain promising engineering and computer science students.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Kevin G. Ritz to be the new U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the Natural Resources Committee, today announced that the Interior Department’s Migratory Bird Conservation Commission approved a $455,577 grant to expand the Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge in Tipton County by 88 acres.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (CA-47), Mike Quigley (IL-05), and U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) led a bicameral group of 58 members of Congress in a letter to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the agency’s potential rulemaking focused on reducing unnecessary single-use plastics in government purchases.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee who was in the House chamber when insurrectionists attempted to disrupt certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021, today voted for the Presidential Election Reform Act.
The vote on passage was 229 to 203.
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today voted to advance H.R. 5651, the Fresh Start Act, a bill that creates a grant program for states with existing eligible criminal record sealing or expungement laws to support implementation of automatic sealing or expungement processes, to the House floor.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who has championed efforts to protect horses for decades, today applauded the Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup and advancement of his Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act to prohibit the intentional injury to the hooves and legs of performance walking horses such as Tennessee's iconic walking horses. His bill passed out of the committee markup and was reported to the full House of Representatives with a bipartisan vote of 46 to 9.