Press Releases
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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today authored legislation to establish a grant program for state and local governments to help provide mediation between homeowners and lenders in an effort to help prevent foreclosures in Memphis and across the country. The Associated Press is reporting that more than 1 million American households are likely to lose their homes to foreclosure in 2010.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), today held a hearing on the Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act (H.R. 901) – legislation authored by Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-1).
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center was awarded $370,000 for heart and vascular research by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI).
NIGMS awarded the Hospital $1,827,001 to research the Pharmacogenomics of Anticancer Agents. This research is working to discover the variability of responses to medications that are used to treat childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced United Housing in Memphis has been awarded $135,000 from NeighborWorks America to finance the rehabilitation of affordable housing throughout the city.
“Memphis suffers from one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation,” said Congressman Cohen. “These new funds will help rehabilitate homes in affordable housing communities throughout Memphis.”