WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-author of the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, today spoke at a Judiciary Committee business meeting on the legislation’s positive, bipartisan momentum.
Audio and video available here.
Senator Coons’ full statement is below:
“Thank you, Senator [Blumenthal]. Both you, Senator Graham, and Senator Tillis have been great to work with, Senator Booker, and we introduced the bipartisan bill yesterday, the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act. It harmonizes previous bills, which Senators Blumenthal and Whitehouse were also engaged with. I just want to thank you for your diligent and good work on this and I want to thank the Chairman for his engagement and express my hope, my strong feeling, that any amendments should be bipartisan in nature and advance our objective of protecting the independence of the special counsel. I am very optimistic we will make progress in resolving this this week and I look forward to having the chance to talk with colleagues about how we can move this forward. Thank you.”
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