Steve Cohen

It seems to me that the American people are sitting around and doing nothing about Islamic extremism.

We also asked for help from our U.S. Representative Steve Cohen's office and the FBI Special Agent Greg Thomason.

I do not believe the REINS Act is necessary for exercising Congressional control over the administrative system.

I do not see the point of engaging in such a process because the bill is, simply put, an ill-conceived idea.

This act was not needed when George Bush was President, apparently. He did not need scrutiny...

Last night in Los Angeles, California, the Grammy Awards took place, and I am proud that one of my Memphis constituents, Kirk Whalum, received a Grammy. I am also proud that a special award was given to Al Bell who had been the head of…

Thanks to the swift response of Admiral Allen, the administration, and the recovery workers in the Gulf, the negative impacts were dramatically reduced, yet still great.

The spill spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 86 days, and was a human economic and environmental disaster, unparalleled in our country's history.

If anything, current employment problems can be traced to a lack of adequate regulation of the financial services and housing industries.

I remain skeptical as to the degree of the purported problem as the proponents of H.R. 527 suggest.

Small businesses have a significant part of our Nation's economy and everybody knows they're so important for our Nation's health.

Well, there are so many problems. I represent an urban district in Memphis, and we do have a lack of health care in the urban areas. We need more primary care doctors, and we also need more community health centers. That's something else…

What is good for the goose should be good for the gander. There but for the grace of God go I. You should care about your brother and your sister. And this is going to be repealed in the same week as Dr. King's holiday? I mean, I know it…

The fact is people should want for others what they want for themselves. I don't have Federal congressional insurance--I don't have it--but nearly everybody else in this Chamber does. Yet they don't want their constituents to have it. Now…

Thank you, sir. I don't think so. And the tide has been turning. The national polls, which I think are reflective of Tennessee at least on a percentage basis, have shown that it's gone from 10 points up on people that want to repeal this…

I won't say it again, but I was right.

It wasn't me that held them up as the biggest liars of the year. It was PolitiFact, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist crowd.

They have emulated his tactics of repeating a lie over and over and not letting the truth.

The KKK is reprehensible. But, when they started, they were not out lynching as their primary purpose. Their primary purpose was to try to get back political power.

They wanted to take back their government.

The Tea Party did arise kind of like the Klan did after the Civil War. There were people who were out of power. They wanted their power back.

The Tea Party people are -- are -- are kind of like without robes and hoods. They have really shown a -- a -- a very hard-core, angry side of America that is against any type of diversity.

I think telling lies is uncivil, and I think somebody needs to stand up to the lies that are being told.

They say it's a government takeover of health care, a big lie. Just like Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it, like blood libel.

The number one biggest lie--this independent group--was the Republican mantra of government run or government mandated health care. It's just a fact. That's the biggest lie told the American public. And it came from the leaders on the…