Press Releases
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today urged Chairman Jerrold Nadler to join him and encourage Attorney General Merrick Garland to release information about former Attorney General William Barr's efforts to cover up the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and mislead Congress and the public about the contents of the Special Counsel's report and decision not to pursue criminal charges against former President Trump.
WASHINGTON -- With lead hazards lurking in about 3.6 million homes of families with young children nationwide, Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Congressman David McKinley (WV-01) today introduced bipartisan legislation to help American families cover the cost of eliminating lead from their homes.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, watched President Biden's address to a joint session of Congress this evening and made the following statement:
MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Porter-Leath Inc. will receive a $110,456 emergency supplemental grant to operate its Head Start Programs in Shelby County from the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive two grants from the National Science Foundation totaling $918,830. The first grant, for $443,830, involves tectonic modeling and earthquake cycles. The second, for $475,000, supports research on "water catalyzed by molecular cobalt complexes."
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education will receive an emergency supplemental grant of $963,101 for Head Start from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congresswomen Gwen Moore (WI-04), Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12) and Jahana Hayes (CT-05) today introduced the Making Essentials Affordable and Lawful (MEAL) Act to lift restrictions on the receipt of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits for people with prior felony drug convictions.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, today presided at a hearing on "Oversight of the Voting Rights Act: The Evolving Landscape of Voting Discrimination."
In his opening statement, Chairman Cohen said:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $179,500 grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development for a genetic study of families with a high frequency of blood cancer.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
"I'm pleased that this critical research is continuing at St. Jude and am always supportive of the great work the National Institutes of Health are doing to underwrite this kind of important research."
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Administrator Isabella Guzman encouraging the Small Business Administration (SBA) to implement the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) emergency relief program Congress established to keep small businesses such as local music venues, movie theaters, museums and zoos across the country open and operating.
The letter reads in part: