Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today released the following statement on the Smithsonian’s “The Way We Worked” Exhibition Tour:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today spearheaded a letter requesting that the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of State launch an investigation into the State Department’s handling of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and National Interest Determination (NID) for TransCanada Corporation’s proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), a member of the Helsinki Commission, issued the following statement on President Obama’s announcement on the end of the war in Iraq:
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today issued the following statement on the death of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi:
“Colonel Gadhafi has gone to a better place,” said Congressman Cohen. “It’s just a shame somebody didn’t put him in that place a long time ago.”
A friend of Congressman Cohen -- Jane Ann Morgan -- was killed on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. Colonel Gadhafi was responsible for the bombing that claimed 270 lives.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the Federal Transit Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has awarded more than $1.4 million in combined grants to the Memphis Area Transit Authority. These grants will provide MATA with the resources to study transit improvement alternatives on the Madison Avenue corridor and to install a traffic-signal priority system on Poplar Avenue and Elvis Presley Boulevard.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today chaired a Helsinki Commission briefing on the upcoming Tunisia elections. The Congressman will be in Tunisia next week to serve as an election observer.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today hosted a telephone Town Hall on Jobs, improving the economy, Medicare, Social Security and other important issues for approximately 45 minutes between 6:10 p.m. and 7:10 p.m. CT. More than 6,000 constituents from the 9th Congressional District participated in the call.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) -- a member of the Helsinki Commission -- today issued the following statement upon news of the upcoming release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held captive since 2006 by Hamas. Egyptian authorities helped broker a deal that will reunite the soldier with his family in the near future. While in the Middle East in June on a fact-finding mission, Congressman Cohen met with Egyptian officials to urge them to help win the release of Corporal Shalit and move the peace process forward.
WASHINGTON – Dozens of House Democrats, led by Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) today challenged the U.S. State Department on whether the national interest is served if the proposed Canada-to-Gulf Coast Keystone XL pipeline results in exported oil and higher gas prices. In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the House Democrats ask that her department ensure that any oil or refined product obtained from the already-risky pipeline remain available for sale within the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has awarded Memphis Bioworks Foundation a federal grant worth $3,743,098 to prepare about 400 long-term unemployed, under-employed, and “discouraged” American workers for specialty occupations for which employers presently use H-1B visas to hire foreign workers.