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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today praised President Biden's historic selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for the U.S. Supreme Court. She would be the first Black woman and the first former federal public defender on the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $416,325 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to conduct research on apoptosis and tumor suppression. Congressman Cohen also announced a separate NCI grant to St. Jude on Wednesday.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $734,126 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct research on T cell therapy for pediatric solid tumors.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Representative Steve Cohen (TN-09) this week introduced a private bill for the relief of Vitaly Stepanov and Yuliya Stepanova to provide them permanent residence status in the United States.
MEMPHIS – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Tim Burchett (TN-02) today introduced a bill to amend the Ethics in Government Act to require Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) employees already subject to financial disclosure requirements to also disclose their total compensation, including salaries, bonuses, differentials and benefits.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today congratulated Bishop David Hall on his appointment to the Farm Service Agency (FSA) Tennessee State Committee.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made the announcement this afternoon.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, and the original co-sponsors of the Guaranteeing Oversight and Litigation on Doping (GOLD) Act, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Roger Wicker, Congressmen Joe Wilson, Richard Hudson, Michael C. Burgess, M.D., Tom Malinowski and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, released a joint statement on the ongoing doping scandal involving the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC).
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will host a virtual tax filing event with local taxpayer advocates from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Thursday, February 17. The event will discuss historic lower and middle class tax cuts and answer constituents' questions about filing taxes and maximizing refunds. It will be hosted on Zoom and live streamed on the Congressman's Facebook page.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today questioned expert witnesses at a Committee on Natural Resources legislative hearing on Chairman Raul M. Grijalva's H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice for All Act.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland with 16 other Members of Congress asking the Department of Justice to reinstate integrated employment guidance that was rescinded by Trump Administration Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The guidance outlines state and local governments' obligations to administer employment services in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Supreme Court's landmark 1999 Olmstead v.