Press Releases

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Memphis will receive a grant of $327,646 for a project entitled "Data Mining and Machine Learning Guided QM/MM and QM-Cluster Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions."

MEMPHIS — Today, Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ro Khanna (CA-17), James Clyburn (SC-06), Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05), and Karen Bass (CA-37) reintroduced legislation to award the Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Reverend James Lawson. They plan to reintroduce this bill every Congress until it is passed.

MEMPHIS – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) learned that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is warning residents near the Sterilization Services of Tennessee facility located at 2396 Florida Street in South Memphis about increased health risks from emissions of ethylene oxide.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation, today announced that Millington-Memphis Airport will receive a $2,976,000 grant from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Contract Tower Competitive Grant Program to renovate the 80-year-old air traffic control tower, including a new roof, waterproofing, asbestos abatement, windows, HVAC and other interior and exterior finishes.

WASHINGTON ­– Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-09), Jesús G. "Chuy" García (IL-04), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08), along with Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), today introduced the Cash Refunds for Flight Cancellations Act, which would provide consumers an enforceable right to a full cash refund for flight and ticket cancellations.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today spoke from the House floor in favor of and then voted for the Assault Weapons Ban Act, which restores and updates the prior assault weapons ban that kept weapons of war out of our communities for a decade before Republicans opposed its renewal.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today applauded President Biden's nomination of Kevin G. Ritz as the next U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Don Beyer (VA-08), after extensive consultation with the White House and Treasury Department officials, today introduced the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act, to ensure that the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share in taxes.

The bill would enact President Biden's proposal to require households worth over $100 million to pay at least a 20 percent tax rate on their full income, including unrealized gains.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement: