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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) congratulated Arlisa Armstrong, the long serving Area Director for West Tennessee with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), on being named Rural Development State Director for Tennessee today by President Biden.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Tennessee communities will receive $120,833,000 for improvements to their drinking water and wastewater systems through the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which he voted for and President Biden signed into law last month.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18) released the following statement after the White House released just 1,500 documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, leaving more than 10,000 documents either partially redacted or withheld entirely:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, better known as the Helsinki Commission, today expressed his concern that the Russian military buildup on Ukraine's border could lead to war. He spoke at a commission briefing entitled "Defending Ukraine, Deterring Putin."
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today called attention to the Committee's release of a report on the General Services Administration's (GSA) handling of the lease of the Old Post Office in Washington to former President Donald Trump.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and its Subcommittee on Aviation, today announced that three Shelby County airports will receive $17,880,000 in new funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that he voted for and that President Biden signed into law last month.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced that Tennessee will receive $1,119,497,252 for roads and bridges through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Congressman Cohen voted for the measure which President Biden signed into law last month.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Health Care Corporation (Regional One Medical Center) will receive a $369,300 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services for its Ryan White Title III Outpatient Early Intervention Services for patients with HIV/AIDS.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Dina Titus (NV-01) and Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey today led a letter with 58 fellow Congressional colleagues to Senate and House Appropriations Committee and Interior Subcommittee leaders, requesting Interior Department appropriations language for the final Fiscal Year 2022 spending package that promotes the humane and fiscally responsible management of America's iconic wild horses and burros.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) tonight applauded the Senate's passage of his bill renaming the Memphis federal building exclusively for the late Judge Odell Horton. The measure, which removes the name of the late Congressman and segregationist Clifford Davis, now goes to President Biden to be signed into law.