Christopher A. Coons
U.S. Senator · Delaware · Democrat · Chair, Select Committee on Ethics
Statements and posts
108 press releases, floor remarks and posts since Jan 3, 2025.
Activity, last 12 weeks
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7 statements
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Senate floor
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Mr. President, we are about to go back to our States, to recess sometime tonight or tomorrow, and then to proceed to the general election. And there is an issue that hangs over the American people that concerns me, and I am sure concerns all of my colleagues, but on which we likely won't act before…
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Crystal Reservoir Conveyance Act
Mr. President, I would like to start by thanking my colleague from the State of Tennessee. This has been a tremendous experience in working together to find a way to protect creators and, frankly, all Americans. We live in an age of AI anxiety, AI optimism, and AI experimentation in a way never…
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End Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act
Mr. President, I wonder if you have heard the story of Jason Rezaian. Jason was a Washington Post reporter--an Iranian American--who was stationed in Tehran and reporting for the Washington Post on the goings-on of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2014, he was arrested by the secret police and…
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Mr. President, thank you to my dear friend the Senator from Alaska, Senator Murkowski, and to all the ALS advocates out there who have reached out to both of us--to us, to our families, to our staff, to our friends. ALS is the cruelest disease I know. It slowly and steadily and relentlessly robs…
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Madam President, I rise today to speak about the Protect College Sports Act as one of the 10 cosponsors of this bill. A question I asked myself when I first got involved in this issue, now some time ago, was, since I didn't play college sports myself: What would I want if my child or the child of a…
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Mr. President, I don't know about your family, but when mine gathers for Thanksgiving every year, regardless of political view, faith, politics, region, what brings us together is college sports. Somewhere between passing the turkey and catching up on each other's lives, we turn on the TV, and,…
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Recognizing the 1960 University of Missouri Tigers Football Team
Mr. President, one of the questions we all have to wrestle with in life is, Why do the innocent suffer? Why do the righteous find, at times, the circumstances of their lives to be so painful as to be beyond imagined? And how does one make purpose out of pain? Of all the diseases that afflict…
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