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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) voted today against a massive $1.3 trillion spending bill, noting it contained the wrong priorities while leaving critical issues unaddressed.
The measure passed 256-167.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today filed a discharge petition to require House Speaker Paul Ryan to call for a floor vote on the Special Counsel Integrity Act (H.R. 4669), a bill he and Walter Jones (R-N.C.) introduced in December to create procedural protections for independent special prosecutors.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) held a Telephone Town Hall from his Washington office tonight, reaching more than four thousand constituents and responding to their questions and comments.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined his colleagues in noting the passing of longtime New York Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, and made the following remarks:
Washington, DC – March 15, 2018….Congressman Dan Donovan (NY-11) today introduced legislation banning dogs from overhead compartments after Kokito, a French bulldog, died on a United Airlines flight. Kokito’s owner says a flight attendant required her to put her 10-month old dog in the overhead compartment and he did not survive the flight.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced that the National Park Service has awarded historic preservation grants totaling $570,000 to the City of Memphis Division of Housing and Community Development and National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) expressed deep concern and condemned the decision by the House Intelligence Committee to drop its incomplete probe of Russian meddling and Trump campaign collusion in the 2016 election.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) has awarded research grants totaling more than one million dollars to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and Healthchart LLC, a Memphis firm that manufactures diagnostic medical equipment.