Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) voted Wednesday to advance the Minimum Wage Fairness Act, legislation he cosponsored to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) praised the House of Representatives’ passage of legislation championed by U.S. Rep. John Carney (D-Del.) to improve the...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation Tuesday to help combat the loss of an estimated $160...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) saluted America’s scientists and innovators as the nation observes National Science and Technology Week, a weeklong celebration of American leadership in the science,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, released the following statement Friday recognizing World Malaria...

LEWES, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) marked Earth Day on Tuesday by announcing legislation to bring national recognition to the American Discovery Trail – the nation’s only coast-to-coast,...

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons has cosponsored bipartisan legislation to step up investment in lifesaving Alzheimer’s research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Alzheimer’s Accountability Act...

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the announcement by Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden that he...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) have introduced legislation to encourage Medicare beneficiaries to create advance directives — legal documents that allow patients to articulate...

WILMINGTON, Del. – On Friday afternoon, U.S. Senator Chris Coons and two-dozen community and neighborhood leaders from around Delaware came together for the second in a series of four discussions...