Press Releases

Mr. President, here we are again. On Monday, September 30, five days from now at midnight, absent some agreement and cooperation between the parties in the Chambers here in the...

WILMINGTON, Del. — Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Congressman John Carney (all D-Del.) congratulated The Charter School of Wilmington in the Red Clay Consolidated School District,...

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...