Chris Coons actually said...

"I want to commend your recent decision to lift the ill-considered State Department hiring freeze, and congratulate you on securing the release of three American detainees from North Korea."

"I could not agree with you more, as you know."

"I would hope we could work together to ensure that anybody who deploys is certain that they can safely return home."

"I think that is a promising bipartisan initiative. And I want to make sure we work together to use that to strengthen international development and advance our foreign policy interests."