Press Releases

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, introduced the National Statistics on Deadly Force Transparency Act of 2014 to close a loophole in federal law that prevents adequate collection of comprehensive national data regarding justified and unjustified fatal interactions with police. Without accurate data, racial disparities, abuses, and instances of excessive use of force are difficult to identify and unlikely to be fixed.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today released the following statement regarding the 2015 government funding agreement:

[WASHINGTON, DC] – The United States Senate today confirmed Congressman Steve Cohen’s (TN-09) recommendation for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors, Ronald Walter, by a vote of 86-12. Mr. Walter will now fill one of nine positions on the TVA Board. Video of Congressman Cohen introducing Ron Walter at his Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works confirmation hearing last month is available here.

[NASHVILLE, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s visit to Nashville today:

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen will fly with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One to Nashville on Tuesday when Obama goes to Music City to deliver a speech on immigration.

Obama is scheduled to talk about his recent executive actions to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to obtain work permits. The president will speak at Casa Azafran, a community center and home to a number of immigrant-related nonprofits in Nashville’s most international and socially diverse district.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-03), and Mark Takano (CA-41) today called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to closely scrutinize a proposal by Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) to purchase a total of 56 campuses owned by defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc., which agreed to sell or close all of its campuses after failing to address concerns about its educational outcomes and recruiting practices.

[WASHINGTON, DC] – The nomination of Ronald Walter to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors, recommended to President Obama by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), was unanimously approved today by the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. The United States Senate is now set to consider Walter’s nomination and, if confirmed, he will fill one of the nine positions on the TVA Board.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – With time running out for this Congress to pass a budget for next year, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a coalition of 18 Members of Congress in urging appropriators to include in their forthcoming budget compromise bill $5 million aimed at cutting through the backlog of untested rape kits that he secured in the House-passed Fiscal Year 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill. In May, an amendment authored by Congressman Cohen to add this important funding passed the House on a voice vote.