Press Releases

WASHINGTON – 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 vital agriculture, rural development,...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) announced they have reintroduced legislation in the 116th Congress to update and...

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.) lauded the major wins for Delaware farmers that the delegation was...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) sent a letter urging Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to grant South Africa an...

Delaware Senators, Representative propose commonsense solution to include in 2018 Farm Bill conference report that would help Delaware farmers and the environment Provision would allow more Delaware poultry farmers to...

WILMINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D – Del.) celebrated United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development grants to Delaware...

WILMINGTON, DE – U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-DE) sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue expressing concern about how...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) applauded the key provisions included in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 – more commonly known as the...

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...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) applauded passage of the 2018 Farm Bill by the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry by a bipartisan vote of 20-1....