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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.

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Jun 19, 2017

I am here to work with them so that we can do our best to provide our troops with a strategy, the resources, and the support they need.

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Jun 19, 2017

What does success look like? How do we define success? That requires a strategy.

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Jun 19, 2017

The decision to send Americans off to fight in battle deserves our thoughtful consideration and a bipartisan effort to produce a clear path forward.

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Jun 19, 2017

When the President sends American troops into harm's way, those men and women, their families, and the American people deserve clear authorization from Congress, a robust debate in Congress, a strategy that outlines the path to success.

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Jun 14, 2017

I thank my colleague for the chance to work together to lift up in a bipartisan way the men and women of law enforcement and to express our prayers and our gratitude for the men and women of law enforcement--for the Alexandria police and…

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Jun 12, 2017

I think the estimate was $1.3 billion in IDA funds.

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Jun 12, 2017

I was one of a number of Senators on Appropriations who pressed for additional money for emergency funds to address famine conditions.

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Jun 12, 2017

I am concerned about the impact on morale of these proposed cuts.

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Jun 12, 2017

It is my hope and expectation, Mr. Secretary, that we will work on a bipartisan basis to confirm qualified candidates who come forward.

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Jun 12, 2017

The growing threat we have seen, the attack on our democracy by Russia, the destabilizing acts of North Korea, the nuclear program, and the world's worst humanitarian and refugee crisis since the Second World War call for us to invest more…

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Jun 12, 2017

I am greatly concerned that the proposed deep cuts to development assistance and diplomacy suggest we do not value diplomacy and development as tools of foreign policy.

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Jun 12, 2017

We need to continue to engage on this, and I appreciate the investment in learning from and carrying forward what VRN was able to do.

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Jun 12, 2017

I look forward to working with you to ensure those resources are available in a long-term and predictable way.

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Jun 12, 2017

I just commend to you the STOP Act, a bipartisan bill led by Senators Portman and Klobuchar.

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Jun 12, 2017

I have unanswered questions that perhaps can only be answered by the Attorney General himself.

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Jun 12, 2017

The way the Director handled the conclusion of that investigation was wrong.

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Jun 12, 2017

It is the scope of recusal that is utterly unclear both to lawyers and nonlawyers on this subcommittee.

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Jun 12, 2017

The fact that he has again chosen to skip this hearing is unacceptable.

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Jun 7, 2017

The question during hurricane season is not if there will be a hurricane, it's when and where hurricanes will hit.

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Jun 7, 2017

What I hear from Delawareans week in and week out is they want good jobs.

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Jun 7, 2017

I think we would really be causing harm to our competitiveness as a country to significantly cut NIST and to abandon the Manufacturing USA direction.

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Jun 7, 2017

I disagree with the administration's prioritization that says strengthening small and medium manufacturing is not a high priority for our country.

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Jun 7, 2017

I see no comparable Federal program or private-sector program that provides the significant connection to cutting-edge resources, insights, innovation on value-stream mapping, on inventory control, and on quality control, and on continuous…

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Jun 7, 2017

The importance of a strong patent system in protecting our intellectual property

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Jun 6, 2017

It is absolutely essential that we deal with the homeless situation that is going on in this country.

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