Press Releases

WASHINGTON – At Wednesday’s landmark Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider new legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) said the 15-year-old law...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today questioned witnesses at a hearing of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism studying the impact of drug and veterans treatment courts,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, praised the work of the ‘gang of six’ — Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.),...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement Monday evening after the Senate unanimously passed a resolution he introduced to welcome independence for the Republic of South...

WILMINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons today congratulated the Dover Federal Credit Union on closing its first Small Business Association loan since receiving its certification earlier this year.  “Getting our...

WILMINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons announced today that he is opening a new office at the Duncan Center in Dover after making it a priority to select a location...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today praised the full committee’s adoption of several important bills on clean...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), will chair the second panel of next Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider legislation that would repeal the Defense of...

I rise today, as have so many other senators, because I’m concerned.  I’m concerned about what I have been hearing about the threat of default has now just over three...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) spoke on the floor today about the devastating impact a default crisis would have on America’s economy, calling on his colleagues to work...