Press Releases

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) led a bipartisan letter with Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Jan Schakowsky (IL-09) and Vern Buchanan (FL-16) to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas Vilsack asking him "to vigorously enforce the Horse Protection Act" as the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration begins on August 24 in Shelbyville, Tennessee.

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that Serenity Recovery Centers, Inc. will receive a grant of $524,993 for the Healthy LifeResidential project from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. This project will provide treatment services for pregnant and postpartum women, including recovery support, harm reduction, and medication-assisted treatment (MAT).

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.