Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted to confirm Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Tom Perez as Secretary of Labor on...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement Monday expressing serious concerns about the prospects for a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) have introduced the Family Engagement in Education Act to help schools and families work together to...

Thank you, Madam President. Madam President, I rise today to talk about something that we don’t hear enough about on the Senate floor these days: jobs. During the 2012 election,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement on his vote to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S.1238, the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative John Carney today announced a total of $1,000,000 in Department of Health and Human Services funding for the Delaware...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative John Carney today announced a total of $2,838,000 in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding to help Kent County...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative John Carney today announced two Department of Transportation grants totaling $381,196 for Delaware programs that encourage highway safety and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative John Carney today announced a total of $503,931 in Department of Health and Human Services funding for the Delaware...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and Representative John Carney today announced a total of $129,461 in Department of Health and Human Services funding for the Nemours...