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News from June 2023

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Congressman Cohen Welcomes Memphis-Shelby County Schools Selection as a Renew America’s Schools Grantee

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 30, 2023

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm traveled to Riverview Elementary School earlier today to announce that it and its Middle School have been selected as one of 24 schools across the country to have major energy-savings renovations made under the Department’s Renew America’s Schools Program.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Minority Health Grant to UTHSC

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 30, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $741,494 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities to address “System-Level Barriers and Improve Medication Adherence in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Populations.”

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Congressman Cohen Condemns U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 30, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today condemned the 6-3 majority opinion striking down affirmative action in college admissions and rolling back decades of legal precedent.

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Congressman Cohen Asks Governor Lee to Seek Federal Disaster Assistance

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 29, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today wrote to Governor Bill Lee urging him to seek federal assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for damage done by high winds since Sunday

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Congressman Cohen Announces $273,000 NIH Grant to St. Jude

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 27, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will receive a $273,000 grant from the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases to study hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis.

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Memphis Standard area weekly mass times

By Memphis Standard | Jun 24, 2023

The following parishes in the Memphis Standard coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

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Congressman Cohen Advocates Presidential Pardon Power Reform

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 24, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, today spoke in favor of his constitutional amendments – offered under both Republican and Democratic presidents

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Congressman Cohen Questions TVA CEO Jeff Lyash

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 23, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today questioned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) CEO Jeff Lyash at a Subcommittee on Water and the Environment hearing reviewing President Biden’s 2024 Budget Request for that agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Significant RAISE Grant Funding of $38.2 Million to MATA and Shelby County’s Project ELBOW

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 23, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), a senior member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today announced two major RAISE grant awards including $25 million to Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) for its Crosstown Corridor Safety and Multi-Modal Enhancement Program and $13.2 million to Shelby County for its Eliminating Barriers on North Watkins (Project ELBOW).

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Representatives Cohen, Fitzpatrick and Titus Re-Introduce Horse Transportation Safety Act

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 22, 2023

Representatives Steve Cohen (TN-9), Dina Titus (NV-01) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01) today re-introduced the Horse Transportation Safety Act that would ban the transportation of horses across state lines in “double decker” trucks or trailers containing two or more levels on top of one another.

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Congressman Cohen Questions Special Counsel John Durham

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 22, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today questioned Special Counsel John Durham at a hearing of the Judiciary Committee.

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Memphis Standard area weekly mass times

By Memphis Standard | Jun 17, 2023

The following parishes in the Memphis Standard coverage area hold weekly mass at these designated times.

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Congressman Cohen to Commemorate Juneteenth Federal Holiday

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 17, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) will celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, as a federal holiday on Monday, June 19.

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Congressman Kustoff Statement Regarding Passports

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 16, 2023

Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) today released the following statement regarding passport renewals for families in the Eighth Congressional District:

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Congressman Cohen Applauds Committee Passage of Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 15, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today applauded the full Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s unanimous passage of the five-year Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Nearly $760,000 in National Institutes of Health Grants to Memphis Institutions

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 14, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced three National Institutes of Health grants totaling $759,798 to Memphis institutions.

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Congressman Cohen Announces Grants to Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach and the University of Memphis

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 14, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) today announced that Methodist Le Bonheur Community Outreach will receive a grant of $1,018,872 for the Delta State Rural Development Network Grant Program.

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Kustoff Introduces Legislation to Combat Ability to Mail Fentanyl into the United States

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 13, 2023

On June 12, Congressman David Kustoff (R-TN) and Congressmen Mike Ezell (R-MS) introduced the Uniform Postal Data Acquisition for Transparency and Early Detection within the United States Postal Service (UPDATED USPS) Act, in the House of Representatives.

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Congressmen Cohen and Roy Introduce Bipartisan Article One Act

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 13, 2023

Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-9) and Chip Roy (TX-21) today introduced the Article One Act which would reform the 1976 National Emergencies Act and presidential emergency powers.

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Congressman Cohen Applauds Introduction of Bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act

By Memphis Standard Report | Jun 13, 2023

Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9), the Ranking Member of the Aviation Subcommittee, today joined Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO), full Committee Ranking Member Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Garret Graves (R-LA) in introducing the Securing Growth and Robust Leadership in American Aviation Act, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation safety and infrastructure programs for the next five years.