Press Releases

WASHINGTON – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), the first Delaware Senator in more than four decades to serve on the critical Appropriations Committee, secured funding in the annual Defense...

WILMINGTON, Del. – Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) announced that Delaware has received $1.7 million, a $300,000 increase from last year, in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined Senate and House Democrats in introducing bicameral legislation to guarantee the right for public employees to organize, act...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), the first Delaware Senator in more than four decades to serve on the critical Appropriations Committee, secured funding for National Guard operations...

In Delaware, nearly 350 people died from overdoses in 2017, up from 154 in 2016; While heroin use has increased statewide, northern communities have taken the greatest hit from the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement after the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. “This Supreme Court...

WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement on reports that President Trump will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin following the NATO summit in July. “It is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) ensured that an amendment giving Delaware farmers better access to agricultural conservation programs was included in the...

Sen. Coons: “It’s hard to beat fear and anger and division with civility and progress and optimism, but I think that’s the message that will ultimately succeed and that’s why...

WASHINGTON – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the committee, to lay the...