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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $2,155,713 grant from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start to operate its Early Head Start programs in Shelby County.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) recognized the annual Labor Day holiday on Monday, September 5, with the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $1,340,187 grant from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start to operate its Head Start Programs in Shelby County.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are leading their colleagues in a bicameral letter expressing their serious concerns regarding the final rule on rear underride protection recently issued by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on June 30th.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today applauded President Biden's decision to cancel up to $10,000 for most student borrowers, and up to $20,000 for Pell grant recipients, as he met a campaign pledge to ease the burden on low- and moderate-income borrowers facing higher costs and pandemic disruptions.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $1,638,000 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' "New Innovator Award" program for research on metabolism.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking an update on the status of a Justice Department investigation into baby powder contaminated with carcinogenic asbestos and marketed to women of color.
The letter reads in part:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $315,415 grant from the National Institute on Aging for research on functional genetic analysis of epigenetic age acceleration and the regulatory landscape of the methylome.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – On Wednesday, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will hold a press conference with Federal Transit Administration Administrator Nuria Fernandez, Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) CEO Gary Rosenfeld and local elected officials to discuss two recently announced Department of Transportation grants totaling $76.3 million to revitalize the city's bus system.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced U.S. Department of Homeland Security Port Security Grants to the City of Memphis ($398,250), the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission ($638,769) and Shelby County Government ($238,078), totaling $1,273,095.