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Chris Coons

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Chris Coons is a United States Senator from Delaware, serving since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Coons has been involved in various Senate committees, focusing on issues such as foreign relations, judiciary matters, and small business. He is known for his advocacy on topics including military policy and legal transparency in government actions. Coons has also been active in promoting bipartisan efforts in the Senate.

Mar 1, 2011

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…

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Mar 1, 2011

Mr. President, I rise today to speak to the America Invents Act. To put it simply, this bill, the America Invents Act, is about creating jobs. It is about protecting and promoting American ingenuity and giving American ideas the…

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Mar 1, 2011

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

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Mar 1, 2011

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

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Feb 15, 2011

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

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Feb 15, 2011

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.

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Feb 15, 2011

But we need technology development.

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Feb 15, 2011

I support ARPA-E getting a significant increase and think it has shown, both in its strategy and its focus, a real innovative approach.

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Feb 15, 2011

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

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Feb 15, 2011

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

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Feb 15, 2011

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...

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