Chris Coons

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.

The issue of economic development as a way to provide some escape valve for the hopes and aspirations of folks in the region came up.

I am concerned about China's projection of economic power into Africa--and also Iran's, frankly, and about the moves that Iran's been making to acquire nuclear weapons.

I was pleased to see that the Land and Water Conservation Fund get full funding.

I would appreciate if you'd let me and others who are interested know if there are challenges in terms of your working with other agencies because it is, in my view, critical that we appropriately streamline the permitting and review…

I want to focus our conversation today about offshore wind.

I think you would be a very capable jurist, and we would be blessed to have you join the Ninth Circuit.

I also was very encouraged by what I saw in Jordan and in the Palestinian Authority in terms of progress around security.

Our troops are making remarkable and steady progress in degrading the strength of the Taliban.

Global piracy is an enormously difficult thing that is draining billions of dollars of resources.

Counterfeiting and, in particular, online copyright infringement and the piracy of intellectual property is a very real and dramatically growing problem for us here and overseas.

Right. Then my next question, in trying to strike that right balance between free speech protection and promotion of free speech and blocking outright piracy...

We have to balance America's historic role as a Nation that promotes free expression.

Foreign governments and, frankly, their comparable law enforcement entities.

I'm grateful for your service and appreciate the direction you're taking the Department.

I think that's critical, as you discussed before, to creating the kind of draw that will sustain manufacturing here.