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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.
Before I yield to my colleague from California to respond, I would like to mention, and I appreciate Mr. Lewis' history, but I would suggest to you that al Qaeda could have found a base in Yemen, they could have found a base in the Sudan…
Mr. Speaker, last weekend while most Americans were celebrating the Fourth of July, Montanans were, unfortunately, immersed in what has become a new American tradition: cleaning up oil spills. After Exxon's Silvertip pipeline failed and…
Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 135, line 15, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $4,000,000,000)''. Page 161, line 12, after…
Mr. Speaker, I am going to vote for the Hastings resolution and against the Rooney resolution for one person in particular--three words: Jane Ann Morgan, a high school friend of mine in Pasadena, California, who was on Pan Am Flight 103…
Mr. Speaker, in June the Global Conference on Drug Policy, a 19-member group that included former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of State George Schultz and Paul Volcker said that the drug war was a failure…
Mr. Speaker, up to today, I was concerned that my friends on the Republican side were only trying to defeat great Democratic programs of the 20th century. Medicare, which will be celebrating its 46th birthday next month, is one of the…
This past Friday, the United States would have observed-- ``celebrated'' would be entirely the wrong word--the 40th anniversary of the war on drugs. The war on drugs was initiated by President Richard Nixon. He said we can have a war on…
I appreciate the Member from Carmel yielding time to the gentleman from Memphis. This is unfortunate. Mr. Kingston, in presenting his side of the budget, was almost apologetic about WIC, and I can understand that, why he would be…
The gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Davis) brought up a quote about how you look at government. And it was Hubert Humphrey who said that governments are judged on how they treat those in the dawn of life--the young; in the twilight of…
It's equivalent to kicking 475,000 eligible mothers, infants, and children off one of the most cost-effective programs in our country. It will cost Tennessee over $1 million. If we get rid of tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires…
Mr. Speaker, the agenda of this House should be jobs, jobs, jobs. And yet here we are in June, and the Republican leadership has not put forth one single jobs bill, not one single jobs bill, and the American people want that. The Democrats…
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