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[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced a new $3,650,388 federal grant for Christ Community Health Services, Inc., awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This funding comes through the Health Resource and Services Administration’s (HRSA) Health Center Cluster grant program.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Sunday’s 60 Minutes shed light on a growing problem that Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has worked to address for several years, the archaic state record-keeping systems that contribute, along with inaccurate reports from other sources, to errors in Social Security’s s
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the Shelby County Board of Education has been awarded an $11,329,117 grant from the Department of U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) to support Head Start projects that help promote school readiness of children from birth until the age of 5 by enhancing their cognitive, social, and emotional development.
A bipartisan effort to legalize medical marijuana at the federal level is now underway in both Houses of Congress, and its sponsors acknowledge they face an uphill climb to passage - but they believe the public is on their side.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that Porter-Leath has been awarded a $1,847,044 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support Early Head Start (EHS) Partnerships, part of President Obama’s Early Learning Initiative.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today criticized the use of Congressional video footage in a new campaign advertisement released by the Israeli Likud party, which is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) received the highest grade, 97%, awarded to a member of Tennessee’s Congressional Delegation by the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) for their 2014 votes. Congressman Cohen’s grade far exceeds the 43% average score of the entire Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced today that two new federal grant programs aimed at eliminating the nationwide backlog of untested forensic sexual assault kits are now accepting applications.
City officials are working on applications for federal funds to be used to reduce the number of backlogged rape kit cases.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen announced this week that two new federal grants aimed at eliminating such backlogs around the country are now accepting applications. Together, the grants have $41 million available to cities nationwide.