Steve Cohen
Democrat · TN-9 · U.S. House
TN-9 — U.S. House
Safe R 96%Steve Cohen is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Justin Pearson vs. Brent Taylor. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
R +15 points of win probability since September.
Bio
Stephen Ira Cohen is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Tennessee's 9th congressional district, a majority-minority district centered in Memphis, since 2007. Previously, he served in the Tennessee Senate from 1983 to 2006. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 19.7 years
- First took office
- 2007 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 58 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 77
- Memphis, TN · 901-544-4131
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $5.5M – $15.4M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $5.5M – $15.4M
- Since 2019
- +$4.2M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 101 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Steve Cohen's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Steve Cohen (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Cohen?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cohensits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cohen's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- Another Attempt to Impeach Trump Has Begun
There are more charges than ever, but once again, it’s really for daring to stand against the Left. Well, this isn’t going to go anywhere, at least unless the Democrats win a big victory in November, but Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) is (mercifully) on his way o…
Freerepublic.com · September 30, 2026 - A House Democrat filed 26 articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday. Then a different Democrat went on NBC Sunday morning and told you, out loud, which Republican he does this with. [ Rep. Thomas Massie]
Jewels Jones ®@JewelsJonesLive1.) A House Democrat filed 26 articles of impeachment against President Trump on Thursday. Then a different Democrat went on NBC Sunday morning and told you, out loud, which Republican he does this with. Sep 28, 2026·Jewels …
Freerepublic.com · September 28, 2026 
If Democrats Win Control of Congress in the Midterms, Will They Impeach Trump a Third Time?With the US midterm elections less than six weeks away and Republicans' congressional majorities at risk, both GOP and Democratic leaders are discussing the possibility that a Democratic-controlled Congress could impeach President Donald Trump a historic thir…
Common Dreams · September 27, 2026
Donald Trump Hit With 26 Articles Of ImpeachmentPresident Donald Trump has been slapped with 26 new articles of impeachment by a House Democrat, accusing him of abuses of power, violations of his oath of office, and a sweeping range of other alleged misconduct. Representative Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democ…
Biztoc.com · September 26, 2026
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