Audio Clips

State Representative Mark Cohen reminds Pennsylvania's workers that the state's minimum wage will rise to $6.50 an hour beginning on Jan. 1. Cohen says it is a victory for students and working class families. Lauren Rooney has the full story from the state capital. Story runs 49 seconds. - 12/29/2006

Sound Bite Only - State Representative Mark Cohen reminds Pennsylvania's workers that the state's minimum wage will rise to $6.50 an hour beginning on Jan. 1. Cohen says it is a victory for students and working class families. Sound bite runs 10 seconds. - 12/29/2006

FULL STORY This story is about the House vote to raise the minimum wage in the state. Run time 47 seconds. - 6/30/2006

BITE ONLY from Rep. Mark Cohen who has championed the effort to getting a minimum wage increase passed in the state House. Run time 8 seconds. - 6/30/2006

Soundbite only. State Representative Mark Cohen of Philadelphia County says he and fellow Democratic lawmakers will keep persisting in their efforts to increase the minimum wage. Runs 11 seconds. - 6/28/2006

Video Clips

In testimony before the House Health and Human Services Committee, Rep. Mark Cohen urges his House colleagues to support his bill to legalize the limited medical use of marijuana, which he says would give many Pennsylvanians living in pain and discomfort a new treatment option. - 12/11/2009

Rep. Cohen announces the introduction of legislation (H.B. 1393) that would allow for the medical use of marijuana in Pennsylvania during a news conference in Harrisburg. Medical marijuana was legally prescribed for many years in the United States until it became stigmatized during prohibition. Rep. Cohen says it’s time to end that stigma. - 4/29/2009

More than one hundred thousand residents use the 11 library branches slated to close, not only for their books, but for Internet access, to read newspapers, to search employment databases and as a quiet place to study and do homework. Public libraries are important education and community resources. Shuttering these community institutions adversely impacts regular visitors to the closing branches, as well as the people who use the remaining branches. Longer lines, greater waiting periods and fewer available books will likely be a result. Join me in the fight to save our libraries - 11/26/2008

Rep. Cohen appears on Comcast Newsmakers - 5/17/2007