I am pleased to chair this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as we consider the following nominations: Dwight Bush to be Ambassador to Morocco; Mark Bradley Childress to...
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of nine Senate Judiciary Committee members, led by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), sent a letter Monday calling for the...
WILMINGTON, Del. – Committed to continuing to help out-of-work Delawareans find employment, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative John Carney announced Monday that they will host...
WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement on the attack at a shopping center in...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) called for renewed, bipartisan efforts to combat pulmonary fibrosis Thursday at a briefing marking National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month. The briefing, titled “Fatal...
I’d like to associate myself with the remarks of the Budget Committee chair. As a member of the Budget Committee, I join her in expressing her strong view that this...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget and Appropriations Committees, praised announcements by Air Force leaders this week that the department will not furlough...
Madam President, I am confident the Presiding Officer is familiar with the phrase, “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote that from his jail...
Mr. President, I rise today to speak to the Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act of 2013, S. 1392 or more commonly referred to here by the names of its...
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a cosponsor of the bipartisan Energy Savings and Industrial Competitiveness Act, also known as “Shaheen-Portman,” filed three amendments to the bill as debate...