Press Releases

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced 3 federal grants totaling $1,187,971 in funding for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This funding comes through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will be used for a variety of programs and research projects.

“This funding will be used to continue important work at St. Jude, one of the world’s finest health care institutions,” said Congressman Cohen.

Today’s announcement includes funding for the following St. Jude projects:

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today congratulated two researchers from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Dr. Karen Johnson and Dr. David Nelson, on being named in Thomson Reuters’ new “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2014” report.

[WASHINGTON, DC] - Today, House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers Jr. (MI-13) and Subcommittee on Crime Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) in issuing a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (VA-06) requesting a Congressional hearing on recent incidents of local law enforcement using excessive—sometimes deadly—force and other violations where civil rights have been infringed upon.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will give remarks tomorrow afternoon at the investiture ceremony of new U.S. District Court Judge Sheryl H. Lipman, where Judge Lipman’s status as federal judge will be formally conferred. Congressman Cohen recommended Judge Lipman, who was serving as Chief of Staff to University of Memphis Interim President R. Brad Martin at the time, to President Obama to fill a vacancy on the U.S.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today welcomed U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Robert A. McDonald to Memphis as he addressed the 70^th Annual National Convention of American Veterans (AMVETS), which is taking place this week at the Memphis Cook Convention Center.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) was awarded with the National Association of Community Health Centers’ 2014 Distinguished Community Health Advocate award this morning. Congressman Cohen accepted the award during National Community Health Center Week at the Memphis Health Center, which is expanding thanks in part to $4.7 million in federal funds provided by President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. A photo of this morning’s event is available here.

[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced two grants for Memphis-area non-profits totaling $1,355,000 in federal funding to help prevent local low-income veterans and their families from becoming homeless and to find housing for those that already have. Today’s grant funding is through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) Program, which Congressman Cohen has worked to secure funding for.

Congressman again calls on House Republicans to restore the landmark civil rights law’s full protections

[MEMPHIS, TN] – On the 49^th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson signing the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) into law, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) cited a new National Commission on Voting Rights report that found rampant voting rights discrimination in America as he once again called on House Republicans to join President Obama and Congressional Democrats in working to quickly