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December 5, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s Special Representative for Political Prisoners, today condemned the extended detention of Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty editor Alsu Kurmasheva and called for her immediate release.

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December 4, 2023

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold a press conference with officials from Vibrant Memphis Inc., doing business as Epicenter, to celebrate the $673,322 in federal community project spending he secured to help the enterprise’s 901 Entrepreneurs initiative, on Friday, December 8.

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December 1, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) went to the House floor this morning to deliver a speech praising the St. Jude Children’s Hospital and participants in Saturday’s St. Jude Memphis Marathon. See the text and video below.

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November 30, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a grant of $385,000 for research on epilepsy from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

November 30, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $573,706 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study the Staphylococcus aureus LukAB Cytotoxin.

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November 30, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today addressed the need for a long-term Reauthorization of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and questioned expert witnesses about the negative ramifications of continuing to extend short-term bills.

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November 29, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Don Beyer (VA-8) today reintroduced the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act with 60 of their Congressional colleagues. The measure would prevent the wealthiest Americans from escaping federal income taxes or paying lower tax rates than ordinary Americans.

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November 27, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Tipton County will receive $1,033,567 from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for debris removal after the severe storms of March 31 to April 1 this year.

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November 22, 2023

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) will hold a press availability to celebrate the $3 million appropriation he secured for the renovation of Historic Melrose High School in Orange Mound on Monday, November 27.  Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland and the city’s Housing and Community Development Director Ashley Cash will also speak and take questions.

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November 20, 2023

WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a member of the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus who was awarded the Humane Society’s Humane Horseman of the Year last year, and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (IL-9) and Congressman Vern Buchanan (FL-16), today led 122 Congressional colleagues in a letter to United States Depart