Chris Coons

It is my hope that the Global Food Security Act will be soon enacted by both houses of Congress and the President.

Last year's renewal of the U.S.-India defense framework agreement is, I hope, the sign of a new and positive era in U.S.-India relations.

Delaware is home to a large, industrious, engaged, and very entrepreneurial Indian American community that is constantly working with me to seek ways to strengthen bilateral ties.

Thank you for convening this important hearing on the future of relations between the United States and the world's most populous democracy.

So it is my hope that we can continue to come together to work in a bipartisan way to improve the Affordable Care Act.

I joined together to pass the first stand-alone bipartisan Affordable Care Act change.

I am also a cosponsor of Senator Warner's Commonsense Reporting Act, which makes important changes to streamline the ACA's reporting requirements.

I believe there are changes that need to be made to the law to make it work better, especially for small businesses.

We need to recalibrate humanitarian assistance from being emergency and temporary to recognizing that a whole generation of Syrians will likely grow up in the midst of conflict.

The grinding, brutal nature of the humanitarian crisis in Syria is something that has... unresolved tragedies of the modern era.

The Senate, and this committee in particular, must continue to grapple with the trends that you have identified

Thanks very much, Chairman Corker, Ranking Member Cardin, for convening this fascinating hearing.

SBIR Phase II awardees should be permitted to expend up to 5 percent of their Phase II funding on commercialization-oriented activities.

MEP funding should be increased to $260 million annually and the program authorized through 2020.

That, frankly, is a travesty.

CS education is critical to our future.

That's why we support the President's National Strategic Computing Initiative, and urge Congress to fund that.

We need to change the match requirement, which is now 2-to-1, to a 1-to-1 match.

We'd be more likely to get that in the marketplace.

African soldiers are fighting and dying against terrorism in Somalia, in Nigeria, in Mali, and we are providing critical support, training, funding, and resources.

I think the fight against terrorism across Africa is every bit as urgent and every bit as large in scale as it is in the Middle East.

I appreciate Senator Markey raising concerns about DRC and their shrinking space for elections.

If we do not fund our values--and our values essentially are around democracy and space for opposition parties and for journalists--they draw conclusions.

I think one of our challenges is to remain appropriately focused on the difficulties of developing a sustained strategic framework for engaging with extremism and violence on the continent while still recognizing the significant growth…

The help that we have had that has enabled us to do what we have done has been the United States.