Press Releases

WILMINGTON, Del. – U.S. Senator Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement Tuesday after Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced that the sequester-induced furloughs...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), chair and ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts, wrote to the head of...

WILMINGTON, Del. – The Senate on Thursday night passed a bipartisan resolution introduced by U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) and four of his Senate colleagues to mark the one-year anniversary...

Thank you for the opportunity to speak before you and for holding today’s hearing on this timely and important subject.  As you consider principles for energy tax reform, I’m grateful...

Madam President, this week, our Senate will consider the nomination of Samantha Power to serve as our next Ambassador to the United Nations. In fact, I hope we will be...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement Tuesday as Zimbabweans prepare to go to the polls...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) voted to confirm Kent Hirozawa, Nancy Schiffer, Mark Gaston Pearce, Harry Johnson, and Philip Miscimarra as members of the National Labor Relations Board...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and the Courts, and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee,...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement Friday in response to additional repressive acts against freedom...

Madam President, President Obama today is in the Midwest talking to folks about how important it is that Congress returns its focus to our nation’s economic recovery, and I couldn’t...