Chris Coons

This is in my view has to stop, and it is not going to be able to stop maybe even under my tenure.

As we go toward the 2012 elections in Kenya, what are the things that we can and should be doing to continue to push along the path of reform to strengthen democratic institutions in Kenya to ensure we do not have a repeat of the 2007…

I believe that we need to work together.

So in my view for the good of future generations, this has got to be a priority.

One concern I have around sort of legitimacy, given the recent protests throughout north Africa and the Middle East, is transparency and corruption.

It is therefore absolutely critical that we remain fully engaged in Sudan, and particularly in Darfur.

Your questions always add breadth and depth to the questioning we are able to conduct.

One of the things I am trying to urge that we take greater advantage of is the opportunity posed by a large African diaspora community in the United States which often is involved not just in remittances but also in possible…

If I am confirmed, I would look forward to further honing and refining not only with Mali but with my colleagues in the region about how we might best support those efforts to ensure that AQIM does not become the much more dangerous thing…

Negotiations are really critical and I think we need to continue to support the AU High-Level Implementation Panel.

I believe it is very critical that we encourage strongly the partners to return to the negotiating table.

Senator Isakson and I held a hearing just after the debt ceiling vote and as many Members of the Congress were going home for work period.

I want to commend the administration for continuing to stay on this issue, but I know many of us share a grave concern about the speed with which the Iranians have moved.

I was pleased to see that there was a prompt move toward a top to bottom review nationally.

I do think there is broad concern in the general public about radiation and dosages.

I think this particular incidence in order to address legitimate concerns of the broad American public we need to focus on the specific failure mechanisms here.

I do think it's a great thing. For us to be doing something constructive in a bipartisan way in this Congress is encouraging to me as well.

I well remember service on the Energy Efficiency work group of our Governor's Energy task force and how eye opening it was to me to first realize just what enormous benefits energy efficiency can achieve for industry and for all of us.

I think standards really do a number of things for this country in the area of the products that we use every day.

There's a new manufacturing facility in Ohio for CFLs and newer expanded facilities in North Carolina and Florida for LEDs.

There are other ways that immigration I think positively contributes to job creation and to growth in this country.

This is a bad border bill, H.R. 1.

I was recently on a trip to the Middle East with Senator Corker.

I know that my home State citizens from Delaware are very concerned about United States-China economic relations.

I think it's something that deserves some study and some really balanced review to make sure that we understand its impact and whether there are or are not unintended consequences to it.