Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement Wednesday in response to reports that Rwanda and several...

WASHINGTON – In Wednesday’s meeting of the budget conference committee, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) questioned the head of the Congressional Budget Office about the impact of Congress’ current spending...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and 10 of their colleagues to introduce...

WASHINGTON – Bipartisan support continues to grow for the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act, which would help level the energy playing field by giving investors in renewable energy projects access...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) and ten of his colleagues have written to Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), expressing their concern about the IOC’s...

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons issued the following statement to mark Veterans Day: “While our nation’s brave servicemen and women deserve our respect and gratitude every day of...

WASHINGTON – The United States Senate unanimously adopted a resolution Wednesday condemning the September terrorist attacks at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi and reaffirming U.S. support for the people and...

Mr. President, every so often in between the crises, in between the rancor and the partisan fighting, we get an opportunity to make some real progress here in the Senate....

Mr. President, I come to the floor once again today to talk about jobs, about manufacturing jobs. Manufacturing jobs, as we all know, are high quality jobs. Manufacturing jobs come...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, and Assistant Majority Leader Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), a member of the Subcommittee,...