Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center $269,012 for nursing workforce diversity. The new federal funds will be distributed by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) recently voted to reduce the federal deficit by more than $66 billion when he voted on nearly a dozen amendments. The Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2012 (H.R. 2219) passed the U.S. House of representatives late last week. The $649 billion defense spending bill increases the Pentagon budget by $17 billion and covers the costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Defense Department is the only agency that will see a double-digit increase in its budget.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), who has worked with President Obama for more than two years to help create jobs in Memphis and Shelby County, today praised the Strong Cities, Strong Communities initiative – an innovative national pilot program designed to strengthen the foundation for economic growth in Memphis and five other cities by delivering federal resources and assistance more efficiently.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today joined with Congressman Sam Graves (R-MO-6) to introduce legislation to prohibit discriminatory taxes on the rental of motor vehicles.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today issued the following statement on the GOP’s controversial multi-year surface transportation proposal to reauthorize our country’s highway, highway safety, transit, and rail programs. The most recent multi-year surface transportation bill (SAFETEA-LU) expired in September 2009, and the program has continued to operate through temporary extensions. Breaking with Committee precedent and tradition, the current proposal was drafted by the Majority with no consultation or input from the Minority.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today reintroduced legislation -- the Fresh Start Act -- he authored to enable non-violent federal offenders who have served their sentence and are now law-abiding, productive members of society to have their conviction expunged from their records.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today praised the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for pursuing justice in the Mickey Wright case on a hate crime statute. Mickey Wright -- a Shelby County Code Enforcement Inspector -- was killed and transported to Mississippi where he was dismembered and burned in 2001. This was the first time a federal hate crime was successfully prosecuted in Tennessee.