Press Releases

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), who serves as ranking member of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee and sits on the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, released the...

WILMINGTON, Del. — U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) told Senate leaders that hospitals serving children cannot continue to sustain the expected $10 billion in losses in the next several months...

WILMINGTON, Del. — The Department of Commerce announced last week its plan to award $9 million in COVID-19 response funding to the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals, or NIIMBL, which...

DOVER, Del. – The Division of Public Health (DPH) was awarded a $67 million Epidemiology Laboratory Capacity (ELC) grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to implement expanded...

WASHINGTON – As more Americans tragically lose their fight to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced legislation...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined Fox News’ The Story with Martha MacCallum to highlight his legislation to expand national service amid the COVID-19 pandemic.  “[I]n the midst of this pandemic, there...

Mayor Garcetti: ‘So for a few billion dollars, we could unleash a trillion dollars of economic activity sooner’ with national service expansion Mayors around the country have called for an expansion...

WASHINGTON — A resolution to designate May as ALS Awareness Month was agreed to in the Senate on Tuesday. The resolution, authored by U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Mike...

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to prevent the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) flagship loan program from shutting down passed the Senate yesterday by unanimous consent. Sen. Coons’ Small...

Sen. Coons questions Judge Cory Wilson, nominee to Fifth Circuit, on health care, voting rights Sen. Coons: ‘Calling [the Affordable Care Act] illegitimate and freedom infringing strikes me as being...