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WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, today condemned the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, which limits the ability of federal courts to issue nationwide injunctions against unlawful executive actions. 

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Shelby County’s Air Pollution Control Program will receive a grant of $100,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one tranche of $3.7 million already approved.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

“Residents of Shelby County are understandably concerned about air pollution and air quality. I’m pleased this funding from the EPA will support efforts to put additional regulations in place to improve air quality in our community.”

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Dean of the Tennessee Congressional Delegation, today led the House of Representatives in a moment of silence for the late FedEx founder and Memphis civic booster Frederick W. Smith, who passed away Saturday at the age of 80.

Before the moment of silence, Congressman Cohen spoke from the House floor, and said in part:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today expressed disappointment at the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding a Tennessee state law banning gender-affirming hormone therapies for transgender people under 18 and ruling against a challenge brought by three transgender adolescents, their families, and a Memphis-based medical provider.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) has placed a poster depicting the “Gulf of Memphis” on an easel outside his Rayburn House Office Building door in Washington.

The action follows President Trump’s Executive Order 14172, signed on January 20, renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.”

See the depiction here:

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois have introduced the Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act to adjust the percentage of federal support going to for-profit educational institutions. 

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday on Thursday, June 19. Juneteenth recognizes the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved Texans that “all slaves are free” and that the Civil War had ended. The emancipated residents of Galveston celebrated that day and, over the years, its popularity as a holiday spread across the country and became an annual tradition.