Chris Coons

The increasing delays and uncertainties of our Federal courts are having an economically deleterious effect upon U.S. businesses and individuals.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

I do think this is a simple but potentially very powerful idea that provides access to long-term financing.

Thank you, Chairman Wyden, and thank you, Ranking Member Murkowski. Thank you for your welcome.

I believe is one of the most fundamental challenges facing the development and deployment of clean energy technology, which is access to reliable long-term financing.

For those keeping score at home, this is my second time appearing before this committee just in the last month.

Your experience and your qualifications make you an exceptional candidate.

Congratulations on your nomination, and welcome to you and your family and supporters and friends.

I am particularly passionate about State and local law enforcement.

Thank you for your service to date to the people of the United States, and thank you for the task you are about to take on.

It is my hope you will continue in that tradition.

In my view, in the last administration, legal opinions were improperly used to facilitate acts of what is now broadly understood to be torture.

I take this confirmation seriously as a result, and I appreciate how seriously you have taken it and the answers you have given so far.

I think, more than anything, we have to ensure a collapse like this doesn't happen again.

There are encouraging signs.

I will strongly support sufficient funding for you to carry out your vital oversight duties.

Dodd-Frank, although I was not a Member of the Senate at the time that it was passed, I think, took critical strong steps in the right direction.

What that would mean is that the United States, working with the Treasury, working with some of our allies in Europe, could make... a preemptive statement that future loans or contracts signed by an illegitimate Zimbabwe Government would…

It is already far too late for a free and fair election in 2013.

Engagement and flexibility does not mean appeasement.

The election itself is not an expression of democratic will, nor a process for Zimbabwe to select a political leader.

If the outcome is already decided, then it cannot by definition be a competitive election.

I think there is still the possibility of progress in security sector reform, in electoral reform, and with some significant changes it is still possible for there to be credible, free, and fair elections later this year.

We are absolutely correct to continually review and reduce or take people off the sanctions list when they are no longer becoming a problem.

We should not simply wait, we should not simply accept peaceful elections; we should be using all the levers available to us.