U.S. Senator Chris Coons chaired a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled “Building an Immigration System Worthy of American Values” on March 20, 2013. The hearing received testimony from a number of witnesses in the immigration field, including: Pamela Stampp, Esq., attorney, Castro Law Firm, Wilmington, DE.
Senator Coons tours University of Delaware’s Institute for Energy Conversion to learn about the past, present and future of solar energy.
Senator Coons hosted is second annual Opportunity: Africa conference on February 11, 2013 at Delaware State University in Dover
Sen. Coons pitched Dr. Bill Cosby on the American Dream Accounts Act while visiting with him at the Joshua Harvest Church in Wilmington. The goal of the American Dream Accounts Act is to help at-risk kids get to college.
Senator Chris Coons, a leading Senate voice on the critical role the National Guard plays in our security, received the National Guard Association of the United States’ Charles Dick Medal of Merit on Saturday at Dover Downs. The prestigious award, also given to Governor Jack Markell, was presented at the Delaware National Guard’s Annual Senior Leaders Conference on January 12, 2013.
Senator Coons joined members of the University of Delaware community at the unveiling of the Horn Initiative for Entrepreneurship on October 12, 2012. The Horn Initiative is anticipated to have a transformative impact on innovation and entrepreneurship through the expansion of curricular, co-curricular and outreach programing. At the event, aspiring entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to try to win funding as part of the launch celebration. University of Delaware alumnus Charles Horn (’75) and his wife Patricia Horn committed $3 million for the initiative, which will be housed in the Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics.
Senator Coons remembered Pearl Harbor Day by visiting with WWII veterans at the Delaware Veterans Home in Milford. Pearl Harbor Survivor Thomas Morris recounts his harrowing story of survival aboard the USS California.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and co-chair of the Senate Law Enforcement Caucus, stood with Dover police Sgt. David Spicer at an event in the Capitol on Tuesday to mark the purchase of the one-millionth bulletproof vest by a law enforcement officer under the federal Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program.