Press Releases

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s newly-proposed rule that would help ensure 5 million lower-income and middle-class Americans receive fair compensation for their overtime hours.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, today announced two significant federal grants totaling $4,359,985 in funding for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This funding will be used in large part to create a new Center for Precision Medicine in Leukemia (CPML), while $1,221,256 of it will be used for a Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, welcomed today’s Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission Supreme Court ruling that citizens have the right to determine how federal elections are conducted in their individual states.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) welcomed recent White Station High School graduate Aylen Mercado to his Capitol Hill office to congratulate the student on winning this year’s Congressional Art Competition. As the Ninth District’s winner, Ms. Mercado’s piece, a mixed media of chalk pasted on black paper entitled “A Moment in the Life of a Memphis Bus Rider,” will hang in public view on Capitol Hill for the next year. A photo of Ms.

[CHARLESTON, SC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, joined President Barack Obama and a Congressional delegation including several members of the Congressional Black Caucus at this morning’s funeral service for the late Reverend Honorable Clementa C. Pinckney, a member of the South Carolina Senate and pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the service, Congressman Cohen issued the following statement:

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, issued the following statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v Hodges ruling that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry and have their marriages recognized by states. This ruling also decides the Tanko v. Haslam case in which a Memphis couple, Thom Kostura and Ijpe DeKoe (an Army Reserve sergeant), married in New York and then relocated—on military orders—to Memphis.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell ruling that upheld the health insurance subsidies provided to millions of Americans through the Affordable Care Act:

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Two years to the day after a Supreme Court decision eviscerated civil rights protections enshrined in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) continued his efforts to fully restore those protections by cosponsoring the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2015, which was introduced by Congresswoman Terri Sewell (AL-07).