Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today questioned expert witnesses at a Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on "The Airline Passenger Experience: What It Is and What It Can Be."

Washington, D.C. –Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congressman Bennie Thompson introduced the Civil Rights Legacy Protection Act, which would reinforce protections for civil rights memorials and monuments across the United States.

Washington, D.C. –Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, questioned expert witnesses at a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on the challenges and opportunities for former prisoners' reentry into society.

Following the hearing Congressman Cohen provided the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today voted for, and the House passed, the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. The bill is named for the 14-year-old lynching victim killed in Money, Mississippi, in 1955, and makes lynching a federal crime for the first time.

The vote was 410 to 4.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Memphis Health Center has been awarded a grant of $265,102 and Christ Community Health Center has been awarded a grant of $298,883 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The funding comes through the Health Resource and Services Administration's (HRSA) Health Center Cluster grant program.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Shelby County will receive an $850,000 grant for its Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program from the Department of Health and Human Services.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) was saddened to learn of the passing of Memphis lawyer, public citizen and community leader James S. Gilliland, and released the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, today spoke against anti-Semitism at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's Winter meeting in Vienna, Austria. The CSCE is also known as the U.S. Helsinki Commission.

In his remarks, Congressman Cohen said: