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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today congratulated the Soulsville Foundation on being named one of 30 finalists for the Institute of Museum and Library Science's National Medal.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today expressed his concern that the war has placed Ukrainian refugees in jeopardy and made women and children more vulnerable to exploitation.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced Fiscal Year 2022 apportionment for transit and highway programs released Wednesday by the Federal Transit Administration.
WASHINGTON – Earlier today, Congressman and Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Steve Cohen and Helsinki Commission members Roger Wicker and Ben Cardin met with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Co-Chairman Cohen released the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Helsinki Commission, today questioned expert witnesses at a Commission hearing on Oligarchs, Enablers and Lawfare. He also addressed the need to support Ukraine in its war, saying "If they don't win, we all lose."
In his opening statement, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today questioned National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy on several traffic safety issues.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and 15 cosponsors today introduced the Prohibit Wildlife Killing Contests Act to stop the practice of rewarding hunters for killing animals on public land in contests that serve no legitimate wildlife-management purpose.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
"America's wildlife all play a special role in the natural ecosystem and killing them for what some deem ‘sport' is both cruel and unnecessary. These contests serve no legitimate wildlife-management purpose and ending them is the right thing to do."
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today presided at a hearing on Enhancing the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938. The act requires agents or lobbyists for a "foreign principal" to register with the Department of Justice and provide certain documentary information about their relationships with foreign interests.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) went to the House floor this evening to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated while in Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers 54 years ago today.
In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will commemorate the 54th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday with solemn reflection on what might have been, and made the following statement: