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Washington, DC - This week, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill to designate the U.S. Post Office at 555 South 3rd Street in Memphis as the "Kenneth T. Whalum, Sr. Post Office Building." The House passed the companion bill in early September. Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) sponsored the bill in the House and Senator Lamar Alexander sponsored the companion in the Senate.
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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) answered a Republican attack launched on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives about language in the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) bill to permit reimbursement to The MED from other states for medical care provided to their citizens. Rep. Michael Rogers (R-Michigan) singled out the CHIP provision for The MED as a Democratic “earmark” which the Republicans had no knowledge of, despite the same provision having been enacted by previous Republican-led Congresses.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) joined House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers and other members of the Judiciary Committee in introducing the “Protecting Employees and Retirees in Business Bankruptcies Act of 2007.” The bill seeks to protect workers and retirees when corporations file for bankruptcy and make it more difficult for the companies to use bankruptcy as a way to gut workers' wages and benefits. Representatives from the AFL-CIO and workers' unions also attended the press conference.