Press Releases

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today offered his support for a new $500 million Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge competitive grant program to help states improve and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, issued the following statement in response to the clashes in Sudan in the...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) today released the third installment of his “Correspondence from the Commute” video series, in which he responds with personalized video messages to a sampling of...

WASHINGTON – Today, Sens. Tom Carper and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) signed onto a letter, along with 39 of their Senate colleagues, supporting President Barack Obama’s decision to insist that Congress agree to extend Trade...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) praised the Senate’s passage by unanimous consent of a one-year extension of the Small Business Innovation Research program and the Small Business Technology...

I am pleased to chair today’s Africa subcommittee hearing on the next steps in Cote d’Ivoire.  I am privileged to serve with my friend Senator Isakson and want to take...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after the failure of the Senate to invoke cloture on the nomination...

Madam President, I rise today to continue to express my views in support of the nomination of Professor Goodwin Liu, a nominee, as you know, to the Ninth Circuit Court...

Mr. President, I rise today in support of Goodwin Liu’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Years ago in the early 1990s, when I was...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) spoke on the floor today about the dedicated men and women of law enforcement in honor of National Police Week. Remarks as delivered...