Chris Coons

I am really stunned at how broadly the deep cuts proposed in this budget would affect vulnerable populations in our country.

I have personal hands-on experience in the impact that CDBG and HOME funding can have to help severely disadvantaged vulnerable populations.

I cannot convey how deep my disappointment is with HUD's budget proposal this year.

In conclusion, I thank my colleagues, Senators Klobuchar, Grassley, Cornyn, and Blunt, for joining us today in a colloquy on the floor. It is a small but important gesture of bipartisan support, sustained and long-lasting bipartisan…

I think it's striking. And I think in the end, the general public wants to know whether or not senators, both Republicans and Democrat, are going to work together in a responsible and bipartisan way to get to the bottom of this.

Well, Anderson, I'm encouraged. His long record of service as a senior federal prosecutor and as former FBI director, suggests that he's exactly the sort of person that many of us had hoped would be named for special counsel.

I think these are the sorts of programs that help build the fiber of non-governmental organizations, civic organizations and contribute to the sustainment of democracy.

The Young Africa Leaders Initiative (YALI) and its flagship program, the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, is an important addition to these bipartisan programs that will help to transform Africa's future and…

There are some people who believe we have to choose between defending our interests and affirming our values. They pose a false and dangerous dichotomy since our interests and values are mutually reinforcing.

I intend to relentlessly support programs such as yours that advance the values of democracy, human rights, rule of law as well as our vital interests.

This was a simply stunning development, Anderson. Not just because of the timing, but also because of the justification.

Anderson, that's exactly why this is hard to square with reality. The Trump administration has been in place for six months now. There's no new developments here.

It's striking to me that the attorney general, who had recused himself from involvement in the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign, the Trump administration and Russia, had a direct role, had a hand in this…

I think it's going to take some work and I think it's going to require the career professionals who run the investigation and the current leadership of the Department of Justice, most principally Rod Rosenstein, to step forward and take…

And it may well be time for us to have a special counsel appointed so that there is more confidence in the independence of the investigation that is not yet concluded.

That's the core challenge that we face.

Not at all. And, in fact, the way the firing was done was particularly striking.

We urge you to fully fund the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) and its flagship program, the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.

The bipartisan Reach Every Mother and Child Act... builds on this financing framework by providing USAID with the authorities to explore and implement new tools.

I see enormous power in leveraging the private sector and the strengths of their value chains, their analytical capability.

And I will just say that Coca-Cola has literally the single largest network on the continent of Africa.

It is certainly worth exploring.

It is the Congress that makes decisions about our strategy going forward.

I intend to pursue a disciplined and thoughtful course.

I frankly think president Trump would be better served by putting the phone down and stopping his midnight tweets. He's got very difficult issues to confront.