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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) this morning voted against a cruel and dangerous budget reconciliation bill which passed the House on a 215-214 vote, and made the following statement:
What: A press conference and ribbon cutting to exhibit two state-of-the-art mobile intensive care ambulances for which Congressman Steve Cohen secured $1 million in federal community project funding
Who: Speakers will include Congressman Cohen, Le Bonheur President and Surgeon-in-Chief Trey Eubanks, Dr. Rudy Kink of the Le Bonheur Pedi-Flite transport team, Le Bonheur Director of Spiritual Care Rev. Sarita Wilson-Anderson and Michael Ugwueke, President and CEO of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, discussed implementation of the 2024 Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization law, including his EVAC Act, at a full Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing on an update of the measure on the anniversary of its passage.
During the hearing, Congressman Cohen said in part:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a grant of $913,225 to the study the Proteogenomics of Splicing Proteinopathies in Neurodegeneration from the National Institute on Aging.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today welcomed the choice of Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago as the first American pope to be known as Leo XIV, and made the following statement:
“I am very pleased to welcome the first American pope in history, a man from Chicago, my mother’s hometown. He has the potential to follow in Francis’ footsteps, caring for the sick, the poor and the disabled. I hope to see him visit Memphis. It was Cardinal Archbishop Samuel Stritch of Chicago who told Danny Thomas to build St. Jude in Memphis.”
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced that the Memphis-Arkansas-Mississippi urban area will receive $18,246,472 in the current fiscal year from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).
The state of Tennessee will receive $132,363,425 in funding through FTA formula programs statewide.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) Committee and a passionate advocate of passenger rail service; Dina Titus (NV-1), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, and Hillary Scholten (MI-3), a member of the T&I Committee, today introduced a bill to reauthorize the Federal-State Partnership for Intercity Passenger Rail (FSP) Program through Fiscal Year 2031. Currently, authorization for FSP is set to expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2026.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) noted the acquittal of three former Memphis police officers charged in the beating death of Tyre Nichols this afternoon and made the following statement:
“I am disappointed with the verdicts. But as an attorney, I understand the role of a jury in our system of justice and the verdicts must be respected. These former officers were found guilty in federal court so justice will be done.”
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