I felt bad about voting for it because I hate what fentanyl has done to so many people and such a killer.
Steve Cohen
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Steve Cohen is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Tennessee's 9th congressional district since 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Cohen has been involved in various legislative efforts and has served on multiple committees during his tenure. He is known for his advocacy on issues such as civil rights, healthcare, and education. Cohen has also been vocal on matters concerning the executive branch and its impact on local communities.
Those standards have been in place for a long time. They are not new. What is new is this recent massive overreach by State lawmakers to ban medical care for transgender youth.
I'm going to help you. I'm going to call the Secretary, who is one of my colleagues. I'm going to call him today, and we're going to get this moving.
You've got to have a better answer. You've got to do something different, or this is going to go on until your great grandchildren are sitting in this Chair as DEA head.
I am absolutely disgusted by the Republican majority's bullying, bigoted framing of an issue that would otherwise be worthy of serious discussion.
The Republicans didn't want vaccines and face masks, and they argued that parental rights were sacrosanct then.
I will not sit here and allow the trans community to be abused or in essence to be rejected.
The administration announced the opening of regional processing centers across the Western Hemisphere.
Could you ask the folks, because they come under you, at Global Entry to look into why citizens in Memphis have to go to Jackson?
The administration has embraced the use of parole following a bipartisan tradition of Presidential Administrations going back 70 years.
The invasion narrative some Members push in this hearing room is bigoted, fact-free, and dangerous.
The previous administration enacted over 400 changes designed to shut down legal immigration.
I have serious concerns about some policies including a new asylum regulation which was just declared unlawful in Federal court.
It is our job in Congress to fix this. We have not updated the immigration system in over three decades.
Today, thanks to a concerted Republican strategy to vilify immigrants, it is hard to imagine a bill like that garnering that kind of bipartisan vote in either chamber.
Director Wray testified that a lot of the animus that has been conjured up against government, in this Congress particularly, but around the country, have given White supremacists of the belief that their actions may be justified.
The Trump Administration considered every undocumented immigrant a priority for removal.
You and the Biden Administration have used your legal authorities granted by Congress to add additional legal pathways.
It was Cancun I was trying to think of. So if the amendment dealt with Cancun when Texas was having a climate emergency, that is a different situation, and people might need to know about that. But Secretary Buttigieg, there is no reason…
Firstly, I would like to go ahead and extend to all the leadership that produced this bill my thanks: Chairman Sam Graves, Ranking Member Larsen, and Subcommittee Chair Garret Graves, our self-professed passenger. This is an outstanding…
I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Tennessee is recognized for 5 minutes.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have seen a spike in the number of mass flight cancellations and significant delay events. Some of these events were not completely attributable to the airlines. The acceleration of the number of…





