Press Releases

WILMINGTON, Del. – Civil rights icon and U.S. Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.) will travel to Wilmington, Delaware on June 5 to join U.S. Senator Chris Coons and Congressman John Carney...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined a group of fourteen senators in calling on President Barack Obama to significantly increase the number of Syrian refugees allowed to resettle in the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced a bipartisan bill to spur innovation in the field of sustainable chemistry. The Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development...

WASHINGTON – In the wake of the recent deadly Amtrak crash, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined 20 U.S. Senators to send a letter to the Appropriations...

WASHINGTON – In advance of today’s Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting on the PATENT Act, U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) announced that he has co-sponsored the STRONG Patents Act, competing patent...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today introduced legislation to reauthorize the energy...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) on Wednesday spoke on the Senate floor about the need to protect Americans’ privacy rights and reform the PATRIOT Act, the 2001 law...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement after Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the Senate will vote this week on the USA Freedom Act, which...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today introduced the African Free Trade Initiative Act, which would require the president to establish a plan to negotiate and enter into Free Trade...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus, praised the Senate’s vote to pass his bipartisan...