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[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced a $759,476 federal grant for Drug Court, Juvenile Court, and Veterans’ Court projects in Shelby County. This funding comes through the U.S.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced the Department of Labor (DOL) has awarded a five-year $42,167,173 contract to help the Dr. Benjamin L. Hooks Job Corps Center in Memphis provide no-cost career technical and academic training to nearly 300 students each term.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – In his Memphis office this afternoon, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) met with Cordova cancer survivor Lori Kuhuski and Bert Fayne from the American Cancer Society’s Mid-South Division to discuss federal research initiatives and accept their petition urging increased cancer research funding.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that he is accepting entries from Ninth District constituents into a lottery for tickets to watch His Holiness Pope Francis’ upcoming address to Congress—the first such address by a Pope in history—and have a chance to see the Pope in person when he is in Washington, D.C., on September 24.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the University of Tennessee Health Science Center three federal grants totaling $780,393 for a variety of programs and research projects.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – After an investigation was released today finding evidence of Tennessee Walking Horse trainers using inhumane and illegal “soring” techniques to artificially exaggerate the gait of their horses, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) called on Congress to pass the bipartisan Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act, H.R. 3268, to end the tactics once and for all.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced $541,667 in federal funding to help the Memphis Health Center open a new access point in the Whitehaven community. The new access point will provide the same health care services that Shelby County citizens have come to expect of the Memphis Health Center’s other locations. This grant funding comes from the U.S.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today issued the following statement announcing that he will support the P5+1 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to prevent a nuclear weapons-equipped Iran: