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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced the U.S. Department of Education has awarded Memphis City Schools $592,056 in new federal funding under the agency’s School Leadership Program to recruit, train and mentor principals and assistant principals.

“The School Leadership Program will provide invaluable resources to principals and school administrators in Memphis,” said Congressman Cohen. “With these new federal funds, Memphis City Schools will be able to educate a new generation of leaders.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today voted to support bipartisan legislation -- the Fair Sentencing Act (S. 1789) – to reduce the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine and significantly increases criminal penalties for serious drug offenders.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed for the second time this Congress legislation Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) authored – the Securing the Protection of our Enduring and Established Constitutional Heritage (SPEECH) Act – that protects American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign defamation judgments that undermine the First Amendment and American due process standards. The measure, which the Senate amended and passed last week, now heads to President Obama to be signed into law.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law (CAL), today chaired a hearing on “Federal Rulemaking and the Regulatory Process.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today voted to extend unemployment insurance for more than 2 million Americans across the country.