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January 21, 2021 Press Release

 

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that three Memphis-based community health centers will receive a total of $905,400 in grants from the Department of Health and Human Services. Memphis Health Center will receive $235,920, Christ Community Health Services will receive $568,140 and Tri-State Community Health Center will receive $101,340.

January 20, 2021 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today attended the inauguration of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and made the following statement:

January 20, 2021 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) responded to President Trump’s final outrage in office by condemning his pardons of the corrupt and well-connected.  Congressman Cohen is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties and has introduced three Constitutional Amendments since October 2017 to limit the pardon power, most recently

January 19, 2021 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today condemned the Trump administration’s politicization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Delivery of surplus agricultural products through the food box program designed to help needy families has included messages claiming credit from President Trump.

January 19, 2021 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, today expressed his appreciation and gratitude for the work of the U.S.

January 15, 2021 Press Release

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today introduced The Living Wage Now Act today, a measure to immediately increase the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

January 14, 2021 Press Release

MEMPHIS – WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) plans to commemorate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday on Friday and the National Holiday and Day of Service in his honor on Monday by encouraging everyone to recall his prescient words delivered in Memphis the night before he was killed: “We have an opportunity to make America a better nation.” 

January 14, 2021 Press Release

MEMPHIS – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) has written to President-Elect Joe Biden to express his concern over the Trump Administration’s misguided decision to allow Tennessee to fund its Medicaid program, known as TennCare, through a block grant.

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