Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today reintroduced legislation that would improve our country’s transportation system, spur economic development and enhance the quality of life for many communities throughout the nation.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Memphis City Schools $499,167 for school-based health center programs.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center a grant worth $438,932 to expand research projects for heart and vascular diseases. This new federal funding will be distributed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program has awarded the Memphis Housing Authority $232,782 to supply permanent housing and case management to homeless veterans.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) received a Friend of the National Parks Award from the nonpartisan National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) for his voting record in the 111th Congress. A photo of the award is attached.
MEMPHIS, TN, July 14, 2011 – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the awarding of more than $6.2 million in national environmental workforce development and job training grants to 21 grantees to recruit, train, and place unemployed, predominantly low-income residents in polluted areas.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today introduced the Jobs for Urban Sustainability and Training (JUST) in America Act of 2011, legislation that would create jobs and provide training to Americans struggling to find work by eliminating tax breaks to major oil companies and using those funds for public works and jobs training programs for unemployed workers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital $324,000 annually for five years for Pediatric Oncology Education (POE) <https://www.stjude.org/poe> from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today offered an amendment to the Clean Water Cooperative Federalism Act of 2011 (H.R. 2018) that would ensure the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maintains its existing authority to regulate pipelines crossing streambeds. The Cohen measure was accepted and added to the bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today joined Rev. Jesse Jackson, other Civil Rights leaders and members of Congress to stand up for voting rights at the U.S. Capitol and to draw attention to recent restrictive voting measures that will strip citizens of their constitutional right to vote, including in Tennessee.