A job fair hosted by U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, and U.S. Representative John Carney on June 25, 2012 drew more than 2,600 job seekers who came to meet with 100 employers at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington. Combined, the employers were hiring for more than 1,700 open positions.
Senator Chris Coons spoke to the Rehoboth-Dewey Chamber of Commerce on June 18, 2012 about the state of affairs in Washington and legislation he has introduced to help businesses create jobs.
On June 18, 2012, Senator Chris Coons toured Atlantis Industries, which manufacturers injected-molded plastics for military, automotive, medical and plumbing applications.
Senator Coons spoke to participants in the University of Delaware’s Emergency Poultry Disease Response certificate program on June 18, 2012. The program teaches U.S. and international professionals about preparedness planning, biosecurity and assessment tools, and rapid response techniques and technology, the three critical aspects of successfully managing an outbreak of potentially catastrophic poultry disease.
Speaking at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Intellectual Property Center on May 23, 2012 U.S. Senator Chris Coons praised new research that maps the broad impact that intellectual property has on the American economy and called for increased work by Congress to protect the ideas and innovations powering our economic recovery.
Pictures of various meetings Senator Coons had with Delaware constituents for 2012