Chris Coons

Ultimately, the American story is not simply one story. We are a nation founded not on one ethnicity or one language, one religion or one history, but on an idea.

I will do whatever I can to ensure that our service members have what they need to defend themselves, and our military is ready to face down the threats of the modern age.

But if this supplemental request is in fact a backdoor to authorizing the war in Iran it will not have my vote.

Our nation’s military has real needs, from filling significant munitions backlogs – partly created by President Trump’s war of choice in Iran – to protecting our troops and bases from the lethal, cheap drones that are a fact of modern…

This is the second time in less than a year that Delawareans working to serve others have faced targeted gun violence.

We’re grateful to the many police officers and first responders who rushed to the scene and captured the suspect.

Yes, we should reauthorize FISA

The U.S.-Israel relationship does not require silence in the face of humiliation of detainees or conduct that undermines basic human dignity.

To defend our nation and what it means is to defend religious freedom. To defend our Constitution is to defend religious freedom. To defend religious freedom is to defend ourselves, our future, and our very republic.

I think freedom of religion is among those most basic and eternal. And I think when we fail to remember that and to give it life, and purpose, and meaning, we no longer deserve the freedoms for which our forebears fought.

Religious freedom, as I’ve said, is a fundamental threat to authoritarianism, and it is because of our commitment to a freedom of faith that we are also, as a nation, committed to an equality of all.

This bill is about protecting what’s most personal to us, what makes us us: our voice and our likeness.

Delaware has always been a center for innovation in this country, but it’s not enough to just invent things in America – we need to make them in America, too.

We have to address gun violence. We cannot become numb to this.

Today, it is on us to be strong for them in their time of pain and grief. Our hearts are with the families of the victims and the Wilmington Hospital community.

Our doctors, nurses, and support staff are the best of Delaware. They hold us together in our darkest hours.

Today, our hearts break for Wilmington. A gunman turned what should be a place of healing and hope into a place of terror.

I'm praying for everyone's safety, including patients, health care workers, first responders, and law enforcement officers.

While a ceasefire and negotiations are a positive development, so far this war of choice has only made American service members and civilians less safe and left many key questions unanswered or unaddressed.

What inspections regime will there be and will the IAEA be involved?

How will we ensure Iran actually complies with any nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Iran if one is reached?

What will be the status of Iran’s enriched nuclear material stockpile and how will its enrichment capabilities be curtailed or ended?

This war has come at a high cost: we have spent tens of billions of dollars, felt the brunt of soaring inflation and higher gas and fertilizer prices, 14 American service members are dead, and hundreds more are wounded.

What sanctions relief, release of frozen assets, or other economic windfall does the Trump administration plan to offer Iran and when?

There are critical questions we should all be asking: Is the Strait of Hormuz actually open to all commercial traffic?