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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Apr 29, 2025

Madam President, in 100 days, in 100 days, what can a President accomplish? In the last 100 days, President Trump has made Americans less safe, less prosperous, and less free. He has chosen to move us in a direction at home and abroad that…

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Lisa Blunt Rochester
@lisabluntrochester· Democratic · DE· Apr 4, 2025

Madam President, yesterday when the budget resolution came to the floor, I introduced an amendment. It is a simple, straightforward piece of legislation that will protect American consumers by prohibiting tariffs that increase the costs of…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Apr 4, 2025

Madam President, I get a lot of questions from my constituents. Delawareans raise a lot of issues, whether they are stopping me at the Wawa, talking to me on the train, knocking on my door. They ask me about three things more than anything…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Apr 2, 2025

Mr. President, I rise to bring the attention of this body to a broken promise by our President. Our President promised, in the campaign and recently in an address to all of us here in Congress, to make America affordable again; to deal…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

I ask my friend and colleague from New Jersey if he is familiar with Psalm 30:5.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

And if not, I offer to repeat it because I think it speaks to this moment. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Now, this is a holy month. It is the month of Lent. It is the month of Ramadan. It is the period of…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

I had suspected that that might be the case, given that my colleague from New Jersey has dedicated his night to standing tall and fighting hard to make sure that the people of the United States know what is going on. I will share with you…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

Is the Senator familiar with Rory Badger of Delaware? Is the Senator familiar with my guest to the speech to a joint session of Congress delivered by President Trump just a few weeks ago?

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

Does my colleague have an opinion about whether it strengthens or harms America in our national security to have an earned reputation as a nation of compassion, a nation that comes to the aid of those suffering through humanitarian…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

Denmark lost per capita, I believe--excuse me. Let me simply ask of my colleague one more question.

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

Is my colleague aware that broadly distributed across our NATO allies is service and sacrifice, including the loss of their troops in combat and that every single loss in combat was a loss of great service and sacrifice by our NATO allies?

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

To my colleague, I ask the question: Are you familiar with the cuts that have been imposed on the U.S. Department of Agriculture, suspending hundreds of millions of meals to Americans in need and the justification for that being offered?

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

To my colleague and friend from the great State of New Jersey, I simply am asking the question: Are you familiar with a marine from Seaford, DE? His name is Rory Badger. He is not a man of politics. He is not a partisan. And he only came…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

To my good friend and colleague, as we transition to comments about the economy, are you familiar with the very first time that Jesus stood in his home synagogue in Nazareth to preach? He read from the scroll a passage from, I believe…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

Is my colleague familiar with the testimony of Gen. Jim Mattis, a decorated four-star Marine Corps general who served as Secretary of Defense in the previous Trump administration who testified about what the consequences would be if we…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

To my colleague from New Jersey, I ask the question: Are you familiar with when, whether, and why NATO has invoked article 4 and how the service and the sacrifice that followed reinforces exactly the point I believe my colleague was…

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Chris Coons
@chriscoons· Democratic · DE· Mar 31, 2025

To my colleague, are you aware which of our European NATO allies lost per capita the highest number of their soldiers in combat serving alongside American servicemembers, a nation I visited, a nation whose servicemembers I visited, a…

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