Chris Coons

Delaware is the only State without a national park, and I want to commend my senior senator, Tom Carper, for his tireless work on behalf of this bill.

Thank you very much, Chairman Udall, and thank you. Congratulations to Senator Burr both for your service on this committee.

What does Pakistan's inability... to detect Osama bin Laden within Pakistan say about the security of its nuclear arsenal?

One of the best things I think about the Kerry-Lugar-Berman assistance was an attempt to move from assistance government to government to assistance directly affects the Pakistani people.

Pakistan in many ways is both fire fighter and arsonist in our efforts to try and tackle extremism and terrorism.

I was concerned to see the COPS technology program, for example, zeroed out.

I'm very concerned about that loss of early market leadership and intellectual property that seems to be going on whole-scale across whole families of technologies.

I have supported extension of the R and D tax credits, the 48 [c] manufacturing credits, the 1603 Treasury grants program.

Hopefully go just off the coast of Delaware.

I believe MCC's actions have helped prompt a level of dialogue about human rights for LGBT populations.

In the coming years, African cooperation will be increasingly essential in managing a wide range of global issues such as international terrorism, smuggling, piracy, migration, climate change, infectious disease, and food production.

If fledgling democracies are allowed to fail and undemocratic regimes are allowed to endure unchallenged, then people will lose confidence in democracy and free market economic principles.

Helping African countries realize their full potential and succeed as economically viable democracies is in our national interest.

I am grateful to the whole panel for your testimony today, for your participation.

We believe that Joseph Kony remains one of the most serious threats to stability in the central African region.

I think it is a good example of where U.S. influence and leverage played a very positive role.

I support and see real value in your work to build capacity to fight corruption across dozens of countries in the world.

Our dollars do help. They help us enormously promote democracy, improve economic development and prosperity.

America is the first great nation that became great not by what it took from other nations, but by what it gave to other nations.

I am pleased that recently both Secretary of Defense Gates and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mullen have expressed their strong support for increased resources for the State Department.

The Pentagon's budget is more than 10 times larger than that proposed for the Department of State.

I hope to hear from our four witnesses today about the implications for the long term of potential reductions in foreign assistance.

I would like to call to order this hearing of the Subcommittee on African Affairs of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.

I was just interested in your particular views based on your own particular experiences about how we ensure equal access to justice for all Americans.

I would just like to take a moment and note that so far in the 112th Congress the Senate has indeed increased the pace at which district court nominees are being confirmed.