115th Congress
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) applauded last week's Senate passage of his bill, H.R. 5349, to name the post office at 1320 Autumn Avenue in Memphis for Judge Russell B. Sugarmon Jr., the Civil Rights leader, attorney and judge. The House passed the bill in September and the final step is for it to be signed into law.
Congressman Cohen made the following statement:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen released the following statement commemorating this year's Veterans Day:
"Each November, we pause to pay special tribute to the brave men and women who have served our country in uniform. This year, on Sunday, we also commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the brutality of World War I.
MEMPHIS, TN – Congressman Steve Cohen, the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, issued the following statement in response to President Trump's firing of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and appointment of Sessions' Chief of Staff Matthew Whitaker as Acting Attorney General:
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09), along with dozens of his Congressional colleagues, today wrote to President Trump and to multiple state attorneys general -- including Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H.
Washington, D.C. –Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Constitution and Civil Justice Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) sent a letter to Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for emergency hearings on hate crimes and domestic terrorism in the
WASHINGTON – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) reacted to today's mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation synagogue in Pittsburgh, an attack the Anti-Defamation League has said is likely the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the United States, with the following statement: