Steve Cohen

I look forward to working with the chairwoman and my fellow committee members to pursue this.

I appreciate the opportunity for this committee and hearing, and I just wanted to make some remarks concerning our hopes for the bill.

The nationwide permit process, in my opinion, was never meant to be applied to large projects that have far-reaching, cumulative impacts.

It would be much better with a train. That would be wonderful.

I am a big fan of Amtrak, a big fan of rail transportation, and we have heard today about intercity passenger rail service.

I introduced the Interstate Rail Compacts Advancement Act, which would create multistate regional passenger commissions.

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has, for the first time, dedicated reliable Federal support for States and entities seeking to improve and expand this intercity passenger rail service.

If the people from Nashville could go to Memphis, they could then go to New Orleans. Everybody wants to go to New Orleans. And next, everybody wants to go to Memphis. Atlanta, nah.

That is a great idea for Tennessee to join with the southern group, and just add to it, rather than trying to create their own.

It's just amazing to me that we even have to have this hearing, that it shouldn't be permitted in these types of cases.

Today's Witnesses and countless others have been sexually harassed or violated by people who thought they could get away with it because they were the boss.

I'm against forced arbitration, but I can understand it in certain issues.

The House continues to pursue the bipartisan infrastructure bill and the Build Back Better bill. There will be a Rules Committee meeting today on those bills. Hopefully, they will come to the floor and will pass with bipartisan support, as…

Otto von Bismarck, in the 1870s, I believe it was, said: ``Politics is the art of the possible.'' It is still true. The Build Back Better bill will be the art of the possible. It will be good for America. It will create jobs. It will help…

I don't know of a judge or a person that I have known who is more respected for her rectitude, for her probity.

As the arbiters of justice in our country, the impartiality of our judiciary should be beyond reproach.

Ford Motor Company recently announced it is going to place a facility to construct electric trucks at the Memphis megasite in west Tennessee. This site is 50 miles from Memphis and has been developed for the purpose of industrial…

I think it is important to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to fully restore Federal preclearance so that we can stop some discriminatory practices we are seeing arise in the States.

Minimum wage is absurdly low right now, and to pay less than that is almost infinitesimal to determine something less.

Blast off. I am not Jeff Bezos. I am Congressman Steve Cohen, and this is start of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

I am a lifelong--and that is longer than many--user of Teflon product, thinking that I was saving myself calories, and I am killing myself, apparently.

I think law enforcement plays a critical role in preventing acts of domestic terrorism.

I come from Memphis, which is a transportation hub, but I am an American, and transportation moves goods and products and creates jobs. I am proud to be for this bill. I would have preferred having the bill that the Transportation…

The behavior that you experienced was unacceptable, and there is no excuse for it.

The coronavirus has gotten to levels in Memphis not known since last January; it is dangerous. Fortunately, today, the Pfizer vaccine was given final full approval by the FDA for all people 16 and over. This weekend, Phil Valentine, a…