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Thank you, Chairman Leahy, and thank you to you and Senator Feinstein for your long and determined work on repealing DOMA. Thank you to the members of our panel today...

WASHINGTON – At Wednesday’s landmark Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to consider new legislation that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) said the 15-year-old law...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today questioned witnesses at a hearing of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism studying the impact of drug and veterans treatment courts,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, praised the work of the ‘gang of six’ — Senators Mark Warner (D-Va.), Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.),...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) released the following statement Monday evening after the Senate unanimously passed a resolution he introduced to welcome independence for the Republic of South...

WILMINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons today congratulated the Dover Federal Credit Union on closing its first Small Business Association loan since receiving its certification earlier this year.  “Getting our...

WILMINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons announced today that he is opening a new office at the Duncan Center in Dover after making it a priority to select a location...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today praised the full committee’s adoption of several important bills on clean...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), will chair the second panel of next Wednesday’s hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee to consider legislation that would repeal the Defense of...

I rise today, as have so many other senators, because I’m concerned.  I’m concerned about what I have been hearing about the threat of default has now just over three...