Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center was awarded $224,484 in new federal funding by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to support alcohol research programs.
“The University of Tennessee Health Science Center is one of our country’s premier research centers,” said Congressman Cohen. “This new federal funding will help expand our understanding of the dangers and effects of alcohol consumption.”
Washington, D.C .— U.S. Representatives Albio Sires (D-NJ), Steve Cohen (D-TN), Laura Richardson (D-CA), and Adam Smith (D-WA) recently introduced legislation to create a national freight transportation policy. The “Focusing Resources, Economic Investment, and Guidance to Help Transportation (FREIGHT) Act of 2010” will implement a strategic plan to guide the goods movement, create an office devoted to freight planning within the Department of Transportation (DOT), and establish a competitive grant program for freight transportation projects.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Education has awarded Memphis City Schools $592,056 in new federal funding under the agency’s School Leadership Program to recruit, train and mentor principals and assistant principals.
“The School Leadership Program will provide invaluable resources to principals and school administrators in Memphis,” said Congressman Cohen. “With these new federal funds, Memphis City Schools will be able to educate a new generation of leaders.”
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.