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This week I returned from leading a congressional delegation to Europe to discuss current international issues with European lawmakers and others. I also testified, along with Rich Watkins of the Memphis Lynch Site Project, in favor of my bill to have the National Park Service evaluate the locations of various lynching sites near Memphis for possible inclusion in its portfolio; questioned witnesses at a Judiciary Committee hearing on the potential erosion of other civil rights following the Supreme Court’s reasoning for the disastrous reversal of Roe v. Wade; was recognized for my efforts to prevent impaired driving; marveled at the phenomenal images sent back by the James Webb Space Telescope; welcomed the ongoing public hearings of the Committee since January 6; has announced a research grant to the Children’s Research Hospital of St. Jude and funding of Methodist LeBonheur Community Outreach’s work with HIV/AIDS patients; and offered health advice on monkeypox, a new threat to public health. Keep reading and follow me on Twitter , Facebook , and Instagram to see what I’m up to as it happens.

Representing the United States abroad

Advancing my bill on historic lynching sites

Examining threats to civil liberties after an attack

We’re working to make Memphis safer for drivers and pedestrians

I admire the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope

Applauding the Committee’s ongoing public hearings on January 6

Announcing the St. Diabetes Research Grant. Jude and HIV/AIDS treatment grant to LeBonheur Methodist

Representing the United States abroad

As Co-Chair of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (US Helsinki Commission), I spent the July 4th recess in Congress working, leading a delegation representing the United States. Before leading the Helsinki Commission delegation, I was an invited speaker at the Brussels Forum of the German Marshall Fund. Then, in London, I met with lawyers and legislators to combat the spate of strategic anti-public participation (SLAPP) lawsuits brought by oligarchs and kleptocrats for defamation and defamation lawsuits against news organizations. After that, I led a delegation to the 29th annual meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in Birmingham, England, and spoke to fellow lawmakers about Russia’s genocidal invasion of Ukraine and my fears of further human rights abuses elsewhere in Eastern and Central Europe. from the avarice of Vladimir Putin. The delegation’s efforts advanced the strategic and moral vision of our nation, and it was my pleasure to lead it.

Advancing my bill on historic lynching sites

Richard Watkins of the Lynching Sites Project in Memphis testifies remotely at a legislative hearing on the ELL Act for National Park Areas

On Thursday, the Natural Resources Committee, where I serve, held a legislative hearing of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands that included my bill, the National Park Areas Lynching Site Assessment (ELL) Act. The measure would direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the appropriateness and feasibility of establishing a network of lynching sites near Memphis as a unit of the National Park System to mark and provide appropriate historical context for these tragic and extrajudicial killings. I was proud to present to the subcommittee successful Memphis attorney Richard Watkins, chairman of the Memphis Lynching Sites Project Board and a constituent, who testified in favor of this measure. The draft law was positively reported to the entire committee and I look forward to its progress. See my release here, including my statements and Watkins’ testimony.

Examining threats to civil liberties after an attack

Also Thursday, as senior member of the Judiciary Committee and chairman of its Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, I questioned experts at a hearing called “What’s Next: Threats to Individual Liberties in a Post-Roe World.” See my release and my line of questioning here.

We’re working to make Memphis safer for drivers and pedestrians

Congressman Cohen receives the Leadership Award from Responsibility.org Executive Director Chris Swong

Memphis was once again recognized as an unsafe place for pedestrians this week. That’s why I’ve worked hard to advance my Complete Streets Act, providing technical assistance and funding to build sidewalks, crosswalks and bus stops to make roads safer for all users, including pedestrians. I also introduced the Multiple Substance Impaired Driving Prevention Act to address an underreported cause of many serious traffic accidents. Both of these bills were included in President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill. For that and other efforts, I was presented with the Advancing Alcohol Responsibility 2021 Leadership Award from Responsibility.org at the Washington office on Thursday. Check out my release here.

I admire the discoveries of the James Webb Space Telescope

This week we see the astonishing technical achievement of the James Webb Space Telescope, and the phenomenal images inspire awe and wonder. See the photos and learn more about them here: https://www.nasa.gov/webbfirstimages

Applauding the Committee’s ongoing public hearings on January 6

The case brought by the January 6th Committee to hold Donald Trump accountable for the three-pronged effort he has overseen to thwart the will of the people and destroy the democratic process is closed and done. I congratulate the members of the Select Committee and the staff for publishing this compelling evidence in a convincing and credible manner. I look forward to all the upcoming hearings and the Commission’s final report.

Announcing the St. Diabetes Research Grant. Jude and HIV/AIDS treatment grant to LeBonheur Methodist

This week I announced a grant from the National Cancer Institute to St. Mary’s Children’s Research Hospital. Jude and a Department of Health and Human Services HIV/AIDS Treatment Grant to Methodist LeBonheur Community Outreach. Check out these releases here and here.

In addition to its surveillance of the strains of Covid that are now on the rise in some parts of the country, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring cases of monkeypox. See the National Monkey Pox Vaccination Strategy, including symptoms and other guidelines, here. To date, Tennessee has only had three confirmed cases of monkeypox. If you have symptoms of monkeypox — which include fever, headache, muscle and back pain, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion, or a rash that may look like pimples or blisters — please see a doctor, as it is critical to contain this outbreak.

“You can imagine our founders would be shocked to learn that an American president would one day come to embrace and justify political violence against our own institutions, or to knowingly send an armed mob to attack the Capitol to usurp the will of the people. But, you know, Mr. Speaker, the founders were pretty wise about some things. And at the beginning of the republic, they actually warned everyone about Donald Trump. Not by name, of course, but in the course of consulting the certain prospect that ambitious politicians will try to mobilize a violent mob to overthrow our own institutions in the service of their insatiable ambitions. In the first Federalist paper, Alexander Hamilton noted that history teaches that opportunistic politicians who want to rule at all costs will begin first as demagogues, pandering to the angry and malignant passions of the crowd, but then end up as tyrants, trampling on liberties. and human rights.” — Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a member of the Jan. 6 Committee, in his closing remarks at Tuesday’s hearing.

As always, I’m staying.

most sincerely,

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