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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) wrote a follow-up letter to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on Friday, asking him again to remove the bust of Confederate General and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol. A copy can be found here.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) today released a letter to XPO Logistics CEO Bradley Jacobs expressing their concern about the timing of layoffs at the company's Memphis facility amid serious allegations of pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment and suppression of labor organizing activities at XPO facilities around the country detailed in national news media stories. See the full letter here.
U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said he'd soon like to have Congressional hearings on the possibility of reparations for slavery. The Memphis Democrat said he's working on the issue with U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.
He said her bill calls for a study of reparations, not the actual reparations themselves, and that he'd like to invite writers such as Ta-Nahesi Coates, Jelani Cobb, and Michelle Alexander to give testimony.
February 22, 2019 | |
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Congressman Cohen sent a letter to National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner Adam Silver commending the league's proposal to alter the NBA draft age requirement but questioning the league's plan to delay the change until 2022.
Congressman Cohen first wrote to the NBA about this issue in 2009.
The full text of today's letter follows:
Shortly before Bill Lee took the oath of office as Tennessee governor and shortly after, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis urged Lee to work toward removing a bust of Confederate general, slave trader and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest from the state capitol building.
At a townhall meeting Friday at the Randolph Branch library in Berclair, Cohen said Lee responded by offering to push for adding some context to the bust.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) remembered his friend and mentor Judge Russell B. Sugarmon this evening and made the following statement:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee lawmakers are responding to President Trump's decision to declare a national emergency at the border. This move will allow for more federal money for the wall at the U.S. Mexico border.
Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) said he does not believe that the President's declaration is supported by the facts. He went on to say that "Apprehensions at the border have been declining for the last 18years and the drugs that enter our country mainly come through established ports of entry, not remote border crossings."
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, today condemned President Trump's declaration of a state of emergency on the U.S.-Mexican border and made the following statement: