Steve Cohen

I would urge you to also enact legislation that creates a permanent protection so that the IRS is not--and any IRS employee is prohibited by law from utilizing the publicly filed campaign finance reports and published reports of donor…

As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, taxes are what you pay to live in the civilized society.

We found no evidence that any IRS official acted based on political, discriminatory, corrupt, or other inappropriate motives to help support a criminal prosecution.

It is simply sad that at a time when our Nation and our world face a host of daunting challenges, the Zika virus, problems in the Middle East, this Congress has chosen to spend its time and taxpayer money on political theater.

Instead of wasting time, limited time, that we have on a hearing about these nonissues, we should be considering substantive issues, like how to tackle over-incarceration, how to end gun violence, how to help students managing crushing…

The majority has picked the wrong President to pick on with the IRS.

Its only purpose appears to be to give conservative critics the opportunity, once again, to assert that President Barack Obama has acted beyond the law.

Today's Executive Overreach Task Force, or President Obama's still President--we shall continue the lashings--hearing is to congressional hearings what a clip show is to a television series.

The real scandal is the scandal this Congress is doing nothing about, and it's the overwhelming influence of money in politics.

The IRS was bipartisan in the way they did it.

I agree that there's executive overreach that's been by all executives.

I think women have a right to choose. I think Roe v. Wade was right.

I think it besmirched the name of Frederick Douglass, who is one of the greatest Americans of all time.

I am disturbed because of the fact that...this is really an assault on the woman's right to choose.

Material submitted by the Honorable Steve Cohen, a Representative in Congress from the State of Tennessee, and Ranking Member, Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice.

So let me suggest this to you, or ask you. On March the 30th, the same day, Boeing's chief technical pilot at the time, Mark Forkner, emailed the FAA with the following request, 'Are you OK with us removing all reference to MCAS from the…

Under the President's unilateral action, more people would be allowed to essentially cut in line for work authorization than are currently--and legally--waiting in line for such authorization, because the resources that would normally be…

Discretion is conferred on the President and on the department head.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds and we don't want to be considered that

It's regrettable. And I regret to inform the critics that neither the facts nor the laws support their positions that these hearings are based upon.

The President took executive action to clarify what the private sale of guns are. And to help close that loophole and the President did it because Congress failed to act.

Congress has refused to take up a single piece of gun safety legislation since New Town.

Why would it not be in the discretion of the President to take action to recognize that perhaps since we have limited funds that Congress is giving us, why not use those limited funds to go after criminals and those who pose a danger to…

Constitutions should not be seen as never changing. That they should not be like a child in clothes that the child then grows out of and needs new clothes.

The fact is the Constitution, which has gone on for many years and is a great document, was not written by infallible human beings.