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WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, to today wrote Governor Bill Lee for a second time seeking emergency assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for damage done in Memphis and Shelby County by recent winter storms. Congressman Cohen noted that the dollar value of the damage now exceeds the minimum federal threshold.

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) voted for commonsense legislation to guard the public trust and ensure tax laws are applied evenly and justly to every American – especially the President of the United States.  The Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act will require the IRS to conduct an annual, publicly disclosed audit of the President's finances.

WASHINGTON– Today, Congressman Cohen voted to pass the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, known as an omnibus, to keep the government open and make transformative long-term investments at the local and national level.

WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen, Co-Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, issued the following joint statement with with Congressmen Tom Malinowski and Joe Wilson and Senators Lindsey Graham, Sheldon Whitehouse, Michael Bennet and Richard Blumenthal after the Senate passed an amendment to incorporate the Russian Oligarch Assets Transfer provision in the final spending package for fiscal year 2023.

WASHINGTON– Today, Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) announced that Seeding Success’s Shelby County Community Schools Partnership (SCCSP) will receive a $2,796,802 grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Full-Service Community Schools Program. This funding will support the coordination, integration, accessibility, and effectiveness of services for children and families at six full-service community schools in Northwest Memphis.

WASHINGTON -- Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today applauded the decision by the House Ways & Means Committee to release former President Donald Trump’s income tax returns.

Congressman Cohen made the following statement:

Following news that Russia’s Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to shut down the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), one of the country’s oldest human rights organizations, Congressman Steve Cohen, Co-Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, and the Special Representative on Political Prisoners for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly, issued the following statement: