112th Congress

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today offered an amendment to the Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011 – a medical malpractice reform initiative – at a House Judiciary Committee markup. The Cohen amendment would remove the $250,000 cap on punitive damages for wrong-site, wrong-side, and wrong-patient procedures, and when a foreign object is left inside the patient. This markup was a continuation of a markup that began last week.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today voted to save our country nearly $5 billion in an effort to help reduce the federal deficit.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Legislative language Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) authored to spur development of the Memphis aerotropolis transportation system was added today to the House Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Reauthorization proposal.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) recently introduced legislation he authored to provide the needed funding for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to better coordinate the collection of statistics from the 2003 Standard Certificate of Birth by providing funding to states which cannot afford to implement these certificates. The measure – also known as the Birth Certificate Enhancement Act of 2011 – would also give the federal government the necessary funding to collect the data from the states.