Senator Coons spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday, sharing another letter written by a furloughed Delawarean, and walking through the events leading up to the government shutdown, including the Senate’s passage of a budget, progress on Appropriations bills, the sequester, and now this manufactured crisis. Senator Coons explained how we arrived at this point, and the ways in which Democrats have compromised and tried to negotiate, only to be rebuffed, blocked, or otherwise prevented from making reasonable progress.