Press Releases
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) released the following statement commending the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) and Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) finalization of proposed changes aimed at ending the horrific practice of horse soring. Soring, the intentional infliction of pain on horses' feet and legs to achieve the high stepping pain-based, "big lick" gait, has plagued both the Tennessee Walking Horse breed and the great state of Tennessee for more than half a century.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) was appointed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to serve on the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee. The Steering and Policy Committee sets the Democratic policy agenda and nominates Democratic Members for committee assignments. In 2008, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to Congressman Cohen as the "conscience of the freshman class." Congressman Cohen is the first Congressman from the Ninth District of Tennessee to serve on the committee since Harold Ford, Sr.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the National Park Service has awarded the City of Memphis's Division of Housing and Community Development a $400,000 federal grant through the African American Civil Rights Grant Program for the Clayborn Temple Preservation Project. Congressman Cohen wrote a letter of support to the National Park Service for the City of Memphis's grant application. You can read Congressman Cohen's letter here.
Washington, D.C. (Jan. 11, 2016) — Today, Congressmen Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN), and Steve Cohen (D-TN) sent a letter to Congressmen Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to request a hearing on school bus safety.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Fair Access to Credit Scores Act of 2017, which would include a free reliable, accurate credit score with the free annual credit reports available to consumers by the Fair Credit Reporting Act.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced an amendment to the United States Constitution that would eliminate the Electoral College and provide for the direct election of the President and Vice President of the United States. Congressman Cohen is Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, the subcommittee with jurisdiction over all proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Washington, DC – House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), who has been the most constant voice in Congress imploring President Obama to use his constitutional power to bring about justice through commutations and pardons, today commended President Obama’s decision to commute the prison sentences of 153 largely non-violent drug offenders and issuing 78 pardons.
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – Ahead of a busy week for holiday air travel, and in response to shrinking airplane seats, Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, and Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) today announced that they will reintroduce the Seat Egress in Air Travel (SEAT) Act early next year during the new Congress. The SEAT Act would establish a minimum seat size on commercial airlines as well as a minimum distance between rows of seats to protect the safety and health of airline passengers.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) has extended the TennCare II section 1115 demonstration through June 30, 2021. TennCare is the state's managed-care Medicaid system and is authorized under a section 1115 waiver. Section 1115 waivers allow certain pieces of the Medicaid program to be waived in order to give states additional flexibility to design and improve their state-run Medicaid programs. In May, Congressman Cohen wrote a letter to Secretary of the U.S.