Press Releases

[WASHINGTON, DC] – The House of Representatives today, by a vote of 419-1, passed Congressman Steve Cohen’s (TN-09) bipartisan National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act of 2015, H.R.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) today introduced the bipartisan National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act of 2015 to ensure that certain members of the National Guard and Reserves who fall on hard economic times after their military service will continue to obtain bankruptcy relief withou

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today released the following statement after the Department of Justice announced that it, in tandem with its Civil Rights Division, the U.S.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a member of the House-Senate Conference Committee for the federal highway funding bill and a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today hailed the House passage of H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act), a bipartisan, long-term surface transportation bill.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, today cited the shooting of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police on the House floor while renewing his call for a federal law to encourage states to use independent prosecutors in cases involving police use of deadly force: the Police Training and Indepe

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) this evening hosted a telephone town hall to answer his constituents’ questions about the issues facing Tennessee’s Ninth Congressional District and the nation.

[Washington, D.C.] – The House of Representatives today passed by voice vote the Open Book on Equal Access to Justice Act (H.R.

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), Congressman Walter B. Jones (R-NC) yesterday introduced bipartisan legislation that would help put an end to the for-profit college industry’s predatory marketing campaigns and aggressive recruiting of veterans, servicemembers and their families. The Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act, which U.S.