Press Releases

WILMINGTON, DE  – After the Trump administration proposed to eliminate the National Sea Grant College Program from his FY 2019 budget, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.),...

WILMINGTON, DE – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) joined colleagues in a letter signed by 47 other Senators calling on the Trump Administration to halt a proposed regulation that would...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chris Coons (D-DE), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) yesterday introduced legislation to reduce the Federal Bureau of Prisons’...

WILMINGTON, DE — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced today that he will oppose CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s nomination to serve as...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), along with National Academy of Sciences President Marcia McNutt, yesterday hosted a reception in the U.S. Capitol to honor...

WASHINGTON – This morning, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate’s Foreign Relations and Appropriations Committees, delivered the keynote speech at the fourth annual Global Development Forum hosted by the Project...

WASHINGTON – In case you missed it, former elected Republicans and Republican-appointed federal judges and prosecutors are calling on Senate Republicans to pass the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act,...

Cosponsored by 131 representatives and 39 senators – the most senators ever to sign on a resolution formally calling for a cabinet official’s ouster Follows repeated abuses of power and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered remarks and questioned witnesses at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office oversight hearing.  “Yet,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-author of the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, released the following statement. “I wish I...