Press Releases

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama announced he was nominating Jacob Lew as the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the nomination of former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) as Secretary...

WASHINGTON – Legislation sponsored by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Representatives Dave Reichert (R-WA-08) and Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-8) was signed into law as part...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement early Tuesday morning after voting for a deal to avert the “fiscal...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a persistent advocate in the Senate for Americans’ privacy rights, today voted against a straight...

Madam President, in this dangerous world we have an obligation to give our intelligence community the tools and the resources that they need to keep us safe. But we also...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement on the nomination of Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) as...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement applauding the United Nations Security Council vote on intervention...

Mr. President, this has been a hard week here in the Senate as we have said goodbye. As you’ve just seen in the remarks of the majority leader, retirements are...

WASHINGTON – Questioning witnesses during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the state of the right to vote in the United States on Wednesday, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) called...