Chris Coons

I appreciate the opportunity that I have had to meet with you and to ask a number of questions.

As a way to protect constitutional rights that were newly enacted after the Civil War.

I view it as an important foundation of this mystery-of-life passage and the subsequent due process views it expresses, really central to Lawrence and Obergefell.

If that is correct and it has been relied upon in subsequent key Supreme Court cases, is Casey and this particular piece of the Casey holding indisputably settled law?

I want to return to a discussion of privacy and the autonomy of adults to make their own decisions.

I think it was Justice Holmes who was attributed to have said that 'your right to swing your arm stops at the end of my nose.'

This opinion was nothing short of a radical revision of First Amendment law as well as the law of corporations, wholly unsupported by the language of the free exercise clause or the Supreme Court's previous free exercise jurisprudence.

The Third Amendment, some would suggest, was rooted in the Delaware Constitution, so although obscure, it is still beloved by some in the first State.

I cannot let this moment... pass without expressing my deep regret that Chief Judge Merrick Garland was treated with profound and historic disrespect.

I believe my constitutional duty to advise the President on this nomination to the Supreme Court is among my most important responsibilities as a Senator.

I just want to commend Senator Cardin and Senator Rubio for reintroducing the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act.

It is hard to hear your testimony. It is hard to endure the images and the sounds and the stories of unspeakable suffering and unthinkable human rights violations in Syria.

I believe it to be in our national interest to have a renewed, clearer, strengthened authorization.

What more could we be doing to effectively intercept or deter weapons shipments or transfers from Iran or from Iranian agents to the Houthis?

We have a significant humanitarian crisis here. You have nearly 7 million Yemenis in need of immediate food aid, and nearly half a million children, according to UNICEF, suffering from acute malnutrition.

I would like to thank the chairman and ranking member, and the panel, for this important hearing.

The Federal government could push for a modernization of roadway design that more consistently supports the safe movement of all users.

Congress can provide more for these purposes either through increasing the size of the Transportation Alternatives or getting flexible funding down to the local level where these investments are best understood.

More flexibility in design of roadways would help local governments get the roadway network that best serves their needs.

Congress could make more funding available to local communities, either through growing programs like TIGER or by increasing local involvement in decisionmaking within the formula programs.

Passenger rail is a critical part of our transportation network.

We need to find sustainable bipartisan ways to finance America's infrastructure.

I think it is completely unacceptable.

I heard about the importance of strengthening our investment in countering Russia Today, Sputnik, and other propaganda outlets.

I joined my colleague on this subcommittee, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, last week in a bipartisan speech on the floor of Congress about the importance of countering Russian aggression.