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MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will receive a $4,163,954 grant from the National Cancer Institute to conduct a Childhood Cancer Survivorship Study.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will hold a press conference Thursday with recipients of the $11.7 million in funding he secured for ten community projects in this year's appropriations process. Those attending must wear face masks.

What: Community Project press conference

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the South Memphis Renewal Community Development Corporation will receive a $1.5 million grant from the Department of Labor's YouthBuild Program to support the development of apprenticeship and other career pathway models that prepare underserved young adults (16-24 years) who are not currently in school for jobs in construction and other in-demand industries.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, today spoke from the floor and voted for the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act, which he and the Commission's Ranking Member Joe Wilson (SC-02) introduced in the House last month.

The vote on passage was 417 to 10.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today questioned an official from the U.S. Geological Survey's Ecosystem program about a mysterious illness that has killed 85 wild horses at a Bureau of Land Management facility in Colorado in less than a week. The questions were raised at a Committee on Natural Resources hearing entitled "Preventing Pandemics through U.S. Wildlife-borne Disease Surveillance."

See his line of questioning here.

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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about Ukrainian refugees, including children brought to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis for treatment. He also expressed his concern for Afghan interpreters awaiting entry into the U.S.

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today questioned expert witnesses at a Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet hearing on "Building Confidence in the Supreme Court through Ethics and Recusal Reform."