I have championed this Complete Streets Act, and with Ed Markey in the Senate...
Steve Cohen
The Public Record
There is no rationale for the historically low level of funding for Indian Health Service (IHS) other than the federal government's failure to uphold the trust and treaty obligation to provide healthcare to all American Indians and Alaska…
Public officials should not be allowed to avoid the consequences for egregious actions by hiding behind judicial opinions.
It's nothing that appears in the Civil Rights Act and it's nothing that appears in the Constitution.
Qualified immunity acts like a time warp. In its current form, the doctrine allows conduct to be judged by completely outdated standards.
I joined Full Committee Chair Nadler, Representative Bass, and other colleagues in cosponsoring the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
the qualified immunity defense as applied over the last several decades, subverts Congress' intent at passing section 1983...
If you create employer liability, admissible liability, as we do for all other torts, it will have a profound effect on the conduct of police misconduct trials.





