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November 3, 2011
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Congressman Steve Cohen discusses jobs, infrastructure, President Obama's initiative to improve the economy and bipartisanship on the House floor.

November 2, 2011
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Congressman Steve Cohen honors the life of Tuskegee Airman Luke J. Weathers on the House floor.

November 2, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today released the following statement on the Smithsonian’s “The Way We Worked” Exhibition Tour:


October 27, 2011
Floor Statements
Congressman Steve Cohen speaks on the House floor about the Memphis Tigers possibly joining the Big East and the economic boost it would provide the Bluff City.

October 26, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), Congressman Peter Welch (D-VT) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) today spearheaded a letter requesting that the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. Department of State launch an investigation into the State Department’s handling of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and National Interest Determination (NID) for TransCanada Corporation’s proposed Keystone XL Pipeline.


October 26, 2011
Floor Statements
Congressman Steve Cohen speaks on the House floor about President Obama's plan to help lower student debt. The Congressman also discussed legislation he authored to help lower student debt.

October 25, 2011
Floor Statements
Congressman Steve Cohen speaks on the House floor about how important it is to support first responders.

October 21, 2011

MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9), a member of the Helsinki Commission, issued the following statement on President Obama’s announcement on the end of the war in Iraq:


October 19, 2011

MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today issued the following statement on the death of Colonel Moammar Gadhafi:

Colonel Gadhafi has gone to a better place,” said Congressman Cohen. “It’s just a shame somebody didn’t put him in that place a long time ago.

A friend of Congressman Cohen -- Jane Ann Morgan -- was killed on Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988. Colonel Gadhafi was responsible for the bombing that claimed 270 lives.

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October 18, 2011

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-9) today announced that the Federal Transit Administration, a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation, has awarded more than $1.4 million in combined grants to the Memphis Area Transit Authority. These grants will provide MATA with the resources to study transit improvement alternatives on the Madison Avenue corridor and to install a traffic-signal priority system on Poplar Avenue and Elvis Presley Boulevard.