There are 270 article(s) tagged Steve Cohen:

• October 2025

  • How Tennessee’s US senators voted on the way to a federal shutdown

    The D.C. Scorecard tracks the votes and rhetoric about the two bills that led to the start of Wednesday’s federal government shutdown.

    By Bill Dries October 01, 2025

• September 2025

  • New deputy governor, county commission turnover, and Washington votes

    Political Notebook: How Memphis’ representatives in Washington voted on honoring Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, and a resolution to keep the federal government funded.

    By Bill Dries September 21, 2025

  • Cohen questions FBI leader about National Guard in Memphis

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., asked FBI Director Kash Patel about the Memphis Safe Task Force, which President Donald Trump established Monday.

    See The Daily Memphian’s full coverage of the Memphis Safe Task Force 

    By Samuel Hardiman September 18, 2025

  • Memphis International Airport begins $700 million upgrade

    The airport improvements, funded in part by $50.6 million in federal grants, will take about six years.

    By Dima Amro September 13, 2025

  • Cohen says mayor has little choice in National Guard deployment to Memphis: ‘The mayor’s got a tough job’

    “If (Trump) will say ... after the National Guard leaves and tells the world that Memphis is the safest city in the world, Donald come on,” U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen said Friday.

    By Bill Dries September 12, 2025

  • Politics infiltrates festivals; school board races show signs of life

    Also in the political roundup, County Mayor Lee Harris has connections to several contenders on the 2026 ballot and U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen signs onto the Epstein files discharge petition.

    By Bill Dries September 07, 2025

• August 2025

  • $50.6M in federal grants awarded to Memphis International Airport

    “Memphis International Airport isn’t just the busiest cargo airport in North America; it’s a critical gateway for passengers and businesses,” said Congressman Steve Cohen in a release. “These federal resources strengthen our economy, support jobs, and ensure Memphis remains connected as a vital hub to the rest of the world.”

    By Sophia Surrett August 20, 2025

  • Israel-Hamas war hot topic at Steve Cohen town hall

    Tennesee’s only Democratic U.S. Congressman also gave his support to a Memphis City Council member’s run for governor.

    By Joseph Mangin August 12, 2025

• July 2025

  • Epstein files fight draws a Tennessee politico into the ring, while another stays on the ropes

    U.S. Rep. John Rose, who’s running for governor, blames turmoil on “liberal media.” Possible GOP primary challenger U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is silent on the topic.

    By Bill Dries July 27, 2025

  • How Memphis’ two Congressmen voted on the $9B federal funding takeback

    The D.C. Scorecard tracks the votes of U.S. Reps. Steve Cohen and David Kustoff in the Friday, July 18, final vote on the $9 billion spending-cut bill that the Senate approved Thursday.

    By Bill Dries July 18, 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: Memphis US reps split on Big, Beautiful Bill

    The One Big, Beautiful Bill of tax and spending cuts cleared the U.S. House of Representatives in a 218-214 vote.

    By Bill Dries July 18, 2025

• June 2025

  • Political Roundup: XAI divide grows, Young in D.C. and the race for governor

    Also in the Political Roundup: City vs. county at Southwind High, a short history of going from the Senate to the governor’s mansion in Tennessee and Lee Harris on his successor and his next campaign.

    By Bill Dries June 16, 2025

  • Tennessee leaders push federal legislation to fix roads around airports

    The Don’t Miss Your Flight Act would “create a discretionary grant program” and use existing funds for improvements to road, bridge, tunnel, passenger-rail or transit projects at or within 5 miles of a public airport.

    By Sophia Surrett June 05, 2025

• May 2025

  • Le Bonheur revs up new high-tech ambulances

    Dr. Trey Eubanks, Le Bonheur president and surgeon-in-chief, said they are “fully equipped to take care of the tiniest babies — premature infants to trauma patients to severely ill patients with pneumonia — from all across our community.”

    By Aisling Mäki May 23, 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: How Memphis’ reps voted on Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’

    The scorecard tracks how the city’s representatives voted in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill now goes to the U.S. Senate where the state’s two U.S. senators have already indicated they favor it.

    By Bill Dries May 22, 2025

• March 2025

  • Opinion: Cohen says Memphis wants results, not chaos

    “Congressman John Lewis taught us that sometimes we have to get into ‘good trouble.’ Necessary trouble. Because when the system is under attack, silence eventually becomes complicity.”

    By Steve Cohen March 26, 2025

  • Political Roundup: The race for Democratic chair; Tesla and townhalls

    The political roundup focuses on a busy Saturday. Democrats discussed what has gone wrong in the party, and we look at some tumultuous Congressional townhall meetings of the past.

    By Bill Dries March 23, 2025

  • Steve Cohen pillories Trump before hundreds at town hall

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen holds a town hall meeting Tuesday night, blasting President Donald Trump and Elon Musk while trying to calm nervous constituents.

    By Jody Callahan March 18, 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: Federal government avoids shutdown

    The D.C. Scorecard tracks how Memphis’ representatives in Washington voted in the passage of a continuing resolution and looks at past trips to or near a government shutdown.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2025

• February 2025

  • Political Roundup: NYC mayor dropped charges recall Ford Sr. case

    Also, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn goes to the White House with the new FBI director, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen tracks Trump and the City Council walks the line with Elon Musk.

    By Bill Dries February 23, 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: Trump administration is ‘cleaning house’

    Also, the TacoNGanas raid is felt in the nation’s capital, Tennessee U.S. Sen. Bill Hagerty pushes back on “Face the Nation,” Mississippi U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker says Secretary Pete Hegseth made a “rookie mistake” and more.

    By Bill Dries February 16, 2025

• January 2025

  • D.C. Scorecard: What Memphis’ elected officials are saying ahead of Trump’s second term

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Memphis, has called on the Senate to reject several of Trump’s appointees, including Robert Kennedy Jr

    By Bill Dries January 14, 2025

  • Blackburn says Senate priorities are Trump nominees, immigration, tax cuts

    U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee talked with reporters online after taking the oath of office Friday, Jan. 3, to begin her second six-year term in the upper chamber.

    By Bill Dries January 03, 2025

  • Young: ‘Turn down the drama and the foolishness’

    Memphis Mayor Paul Young marked the first year of his four-year term as mayor at a New Year’s Day prayer breakfast where he talked about “turmoil” in schools and other “drama” locally.

    By Bill Dries January 01, 2025

• December 2024

  • Political Roundup: The school board’s bad night, tracking D.C. votes and new council meeting time

    The MSCS board has a history of lots of citizens showing up at its meetings in a bad mood. The political roundup also tracks how the city’s D.C. representatives voted on the plan to keep the federal government open. Meanwhile, the city council will meet at 4 p.m. in the new year instead of 3:30 p.m.

    By Bill Dries December 22, 2024