This is a regime we cannot trust.

the administration in this budget has placed a real focus on economic growth and on job creation, which I think is appropriate and should be our highest priority

We applaud and fully support the introduction of the Data Security Act of 2014 (S. 1927) by Senators Tom Carper and Roy Blunt.

We sent a letter to the Commission encouraging the NRC to streamline the licensing process for dry cast storage.

Anything that the NRC is doing to better ensure that our nuclear plants and the communities around them are better prepared for storms like this in the future?

I have a clear interest in the decommissioning of these facilities around our country, including Vermont and other places.

If climate change stuff is real, I think it is, we are going to see more Sandys in the future.

Let me just note for the record we have heard around here hundreds of times, thousands of times, and people ask me from time to time how did you vote on such-and-such.

I believe the NRC plays a critical role in protecting the public and our environment, and impacting our energy security.

They are like a sister State to us in Delaware, so we care about it.

Are there any issues that have been more difficult to address than expected?

I always like to think what if the trip that I take is going to be on the front page of the newspaper, banner headlines, and I have to defend it.

Mr. President, I rise to speak about a bill introduced today--a bipartisan bill--a bill that will strengthen America's innovation economy. Over the last 60 years our national laboratories have served as leading centers of research and…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Brown). Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Coons pertaining to the introduction of S. 1973 are printed…

We cannot stand idly by as our elections become a ritual in embarrassment.

The recent report from the Presidential Commission on Election Administration confirms an issue I have raised previously, that there is a widespread lack of compliance with Section 5 of the National Voter Registration Act, the so-called…

I join a number of colleagues in urging and hoping that the investigation into IRS actions is done in a balanced and professional and appropriate way.

Thank you especially to Senator Warner for his leadership and advocacy for the legislation I am here to present on.