Press Releases

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...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen Wednesday about how Comcast’s proposed merger with Time Warner...

Mr. President, I’d like to start this afternoon by thanking Chairman Murray for her tireless work on the Budget Committee on which I serve, to develop and pass a bipartisan...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has cosponsored a bill to modernize U.S. drug sentencing polices by giving federal judges more discretion...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, applauded the unanimous vote of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday authorizing...

WASHINGTON – A bill cosponsored by U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) to establish a national network for manufacturing innovation took a big step forward Wednesday, clearing the Senate Commerce Committee...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) today applauded the Commerce Committee’s passage of their American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act, which was introduced in...

WASHINGTON – A day after the nation marked Equal Pay Day, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) voted to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation he cosponsored to deter wage discrimination...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a cosponsor of the Paycheck Fairness Act, issued the following statement on Tuesday recognizing Equal Pay Day — the day that marks how...