Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today commemorated International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1945 and remember the horrific murder of six million during the Holocaust.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Congressman who represents Memphis, went to the House floor earlier today and delivered these remarks:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced a $512,103 grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) to study the role of sensory receptors in Angelman Syndrome, a rare neurological disease affecting balance, motor impairment and seizures. The grant is from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced The Living Wage Now Act, a measure to immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02), Marc Veasey (TX-33), Richard Hudson (NC-09), Ted Lieu (CA-36), Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Ruben Gallego (AZ-03), María Elvira Salazar (FL-27), and Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) today introduced the Holding Accountable Russian Mercenaries (HARM) Act, bipartisan legislation that would require the Secretary of State to designate the Russian-based Wagner Group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO).
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Bill Keating (MA-09), Joe Wilson (SC-02) and Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) along with U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Todd Young (R-IN) today re-introduced the Combating Global Corruption Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation that would raise the profile of efforts to fight international corruption by evaluating and publicly naming countries where corruption is rampant.
WASHINGTON – CongressmanSteve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Judiciary Committees, has reintroduced the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Second Screening Act.
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today wrote to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra seeking his assistance to ensure the health and safety of Tennesseans living with and at high risk for contracting HIV by providing HIV treatment and prevention funding directly to county health departments and community organizations after the Tennessee Department of Health’s (TDH’s) decision to discontinue its participation in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Prevention and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiat
MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) learned of the passing of revered Whitehaven pharmacist Dr. Charles Champion at the age of 92, and made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced the Keeping Evictions Off Credit Reports Act. The measure would prevent evictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic from appearing on credit reports, which could prevent renters from being approved for future housing. Representatives Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi and Yvette Clarke of New York are original co-sponsors.