Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today voted to support bipartisan legislation -- the Fair Sentencing Act (S. 1789) – to reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine and significantly increases criminal penalties for serious drug offenders.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed for the second time this Congress legislation Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) authored – the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act – that protects American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign defamation judgments that undermine the First Amendment and American due process standards. The measure, which the Senate amended and passed last week, now heads to President Obama to be signed into law.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), today chaired a hearing on “Federal Rulemaking and the Regulatory Process.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted to extend unemployment insurance for more than 2 million Americans across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House of Representatives today approved legislation Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) co-sponsored to ban “crush videos.” Crush videos are a broad term for videos, photographs and other visual depictions of small animals slowly being crushed to death.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Memphis International Airport $7,472,262 for new safety equipment, terminal building improvements, and taxiway expansion.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The measure will rebuild our economy by instituting common-sense rules to ensure big banks and Wall Street do not jeopardize the economic futures of working families.
Congressman Cohen said: “President Obama made history again today by signing this bill into law. Under this new law, big banks will no longer be able to gamble with our savings or economic futures.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) today announced the Memphis Housing Authority has received $2,484,384 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for replacement and relocation assistance for Cleaborn Homes – a public housing development.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed for the second time this Congress legislation Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) authored – the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act – that protects American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign defamation judgments that undermine the First Amendment and American due process standards. The measure, which the Senate amended and passed last week, now heads to President Obama to be signed into law.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), today chaired a hearing at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law on the Wells Fargo fair housing lawsuit filed by the City of Memphis and Shelby County, bankruptcy issues as they relate to home foreclosures, and the overall foreclosure problem in Memphis.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) participated in the hearing.