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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen will fly with President Barack Obama aboard Air Force One to Nashville on Tuesday when Obama goes to Music City to deliver a speech on immigration.
Obama is scheduled to talk about his recent executive actions to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to obtain work permits. The president will speak at Casa Azafran, a community center and home to a number of immigrant-related nonprofits in Nashville’s most international and socially diverse district.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09), Raul Grijalva (AZ-03), and Mark Takano (CA-41) today called on U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to closely scrutinize a proposal by Educational Credit Management Corporation (ECMC) to purchase a total of 56 campuses owned by defunct for-profit Corinthian Colleges Inc., which agreed to sell or close all of its campuses after failing to address concerns about its educational outcomes and recruiting practices.
A group of democratic Congressmen wrote a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tuesday urging him to "carefully scrutinize" the proposed sale of for profit college behemoth Corinthian Colleges to a student loan debt collector with a troubled record. The debt collector, ECMC, has been criticized widely for hounding bankrupt students in court and using extreme arguments to deny borrowers any relief on their loans.
A group of democratic Congressmen wrote a letter to Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tuesday urging him to "carefully scrutinize" the proposed sale of for profit college behemoth Corinthian Colleges to a student loan debt collector with a troubled record. The debt collector, ECMC, has been criticized widely for hounding bankrupt students in court and using extreme arguments to deny borrowers any relief on their loans.
[WASHINGTON, DC] – The nomination of Ronald Walter to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Board of Directors, recommended to President Obama by Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), was unanimously approved today by the Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works. The United States Senate is now set to consider Walter’s nomination and, if confirmed, he will fill one of the nine positions on the TVA Board.
The grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was bitterly disappointing to many whose fervent hope is to see all Americans treated with dignity and equality under our laws. Brown’s death is a tragedy that cannot be denied. His devastated family understandably feels they did not receive justice.
The grand jury’s decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, was bitterly disappointing to many whose fervent hope is to see all Americans treated with dignity and equality under our laws. Brown’s death is a tragedy that cannot be denied. His devastated family understandably feels they did not receive justice.
[MEMPHIS, TN] – With time running out for this Congress to pass a budget for next year, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today led a coalition of 18 Members of Congress in urging appropriators to include in their forthcoming budget compromise bill $5 million aimed at cutting through the backlog of untested rape kits that he secured in the House-passed Fiscal Year 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science (CJS) Appropriations bill. In May, an amendment authored by Congressman Cohen to add this important funding passed the House on a voice vote.
As Americans gather at their Thanksgiving table this month and join in the annual Black Friday sales, there are thousands of people who will be left out of this holiday cheer. They are far away from their families, serving lengthy sentences for non-violent, and often minor, offenses. Even though they pose no danger to the public, and taxpayers spend as much as $30,000 a year to incarcerate them, they remain in prison because of an antiquated sentencing system, with little hope of release anytime soon. That is, unless the President commutes their sentences.