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January 29, 2024

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative for Political Prisoners, today expressed deep concern about the whereabouts of Russian dissident and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza.

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January 29, 2024

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, and a longtime advocate of advancing aircraft safety, today wrote to Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Michael Whitaker asking him to have current aircraft evacuation standards reevaluated in light of the January 2 Japan Airlines Flight 516 collision with

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January 26, 2024

MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) plans to commemorate Saturday’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and will remember the horrific murder of six million Jewish people and others during the Holocaust.

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January 24, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $475,675 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study “Candidalysin: a key mediator of Candida vaginitis immunopathology.”

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January 23, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that three Memphis-based arts organizations will receive $45,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Carpenter Art Garden will receive $10,000 to support the design and creation of a mural and a kinetic art installation.

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January 23, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Cohen learned of the passing of longtime Commercial Appeal journalist and editor Jerome Wright this morning and made the following statement:

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January 22, 2024

MEMPHIS -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a longtime member of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus, has once again received a “100 +” on the Humane Society of the United States 2023 legislative scorecard. The recognition accounts for Congressman Cohen’s actions, including critical votes, advancing the humane treatment of animals.

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January 22, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $1,171,855 from the U.S. Department of Education to determine alternate means of measuring student performance based on scenario-based assessments.

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January 19, 2024

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive two grants, for $245,700 each, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.