Chris Coons actually said...

"The costs, both the lifetime costs, the moral cost, the fiscal costs on African-American men in particular, as my colleague, Senator Booker detailed earlier, is overwhelming."

"I am clear that without this sort of action that you, Mr. Chairman, have led in leading this bipartisan bill, we will not make progress."

"There is an undeniably disparate impact on communities of color and there are several different ways that we could also have broken that out."

"I believe the American people deserve, and our values demand, exactly this sort of a robust and open debate."