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[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement after President Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba and the re-opening of our nation’s embassy in Havana:
[MEMPHIS, TN] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s newly-proposed rule that would help ensure 5 million lower-income and middle-class Americans receive fair compensation for their overtime hours.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), co-chair of the bipartisan Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, today announced two significant federal grants totaling $4,359,985 in funding for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. This funding will be used in large part to create a new Center for Precision Medicine in Leukemia (CPML), while $1,221,256 of it will be used for a Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC).
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, welcomed today’s Arizona State Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission Supreme Court ruling that citizens have the right to determine how federal elections are conducted in their individual states.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) welcomed recent White Station High School graduate Aylen Mercado to his Capitol Hill office to congratulate the student on winning this year’s Congressional Art Competition. As the Ninth District’s winner, Ms. Mercado’s piece, a mixed media of chalk pasted on black paper entitled “A Moment in the Life of a Memphis Bus Rider,” will hang in public view on Capitol Hill for the next year. A photo of Ms.
U.S. Rep. Phil Roe has deep-seated roots in the old South. Some of his family members fought in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
But asked on a radio show last week whether it’s time for South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of its statehouse, the congressman conceded, “It probably is.”
“The state of South Carolina has got to make that decision, not America,” the Johnson City Republican said. “And I think they’ll do the right thing.”
U.S. Rep. Phil Roe has deep-seated roots in the old South. Some of his family members fought in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
But asked on a radio show last week whether it’s time for South Carolina to remove the Confederate battle flag from the grounds of its statehouse, the congressman conceded, “It probably is.”
“The state of South Carolina has got to make that decision, not America,” the Johnson City Republican said. “And I think they’ll do the right thing.”
Dear Friend,
I am writing you from Charleston, South Carolina, where I joined President Obama and Members of Congress today in paying my respects to the victims of the Charleston Church shooting. This week, we saw a number of changes in our country, the Supreme Court ruled that Memphians can keep the healthcare subsidies they receive through the Affordable Care Act and also ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry in all 50 states, and Governor Haslam called for the Confederate flag to be removed from Tennessee license plates.
[CHARLESTON, SC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, joined President Barack Obama and a Congressional delegation including several members of the Congressional Black Caucus at this morning’s funeral service for the late Reverend Honorable Clementa C. Pinckney, a member of the South Carolina Senate and pastor of Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Following the service, Congressman Cohen issued the following statement:
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, issued the following statement reacting to the Supreme Court’s Obergefell v Hodges ruling that affirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry and have their marriages recognized by states. This ruling also decides the Tanko v. Haslam case in which a Memphis couple, Thom Kostura and Ijpe DeKoe (an Army Reserve sergeant), married in New York and then relocated—on military orders—to Memphis.