Chris Coons

The patent system is the great equalizer, but it only remains the great equalizer if it is strong.

I appreciate your strong and bipartisan leadership of the subcommittee.

I will urge you to reconsider, based on experience at the port, two dredging cycles a year.

I am hopeful that we can work together to find resources.

Thank you for your forbearance and for your sound and solid leadership of this subcommittee and others.

I think it would make a significant different for harbors across the country, not just in my home State of Delaware.

It is disappointing that the Administration's funding request is insufficient for what are the likely needs of the whole country.

I also am an advocate for the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

I am grateful for your continued support for a project that is near and dear to my constituents, the Delaware River dredging.

I would invest $100 million in advance over the next decade to make sure you have enough well-trained, deployed, capable inspectors.

I just want to begin by thanking you and Ranking Member Leahy for the very constructive bipartisan way in which you have worked together.

Thank you. I am grateful for your return.

It is the prevention education.

Thank you for your courage, for sharing your stories today.

U.S. leadership, to me, is critically important.

Senator Corker has been one of our great leaders on the trafficking issue, to end modern-day slavery.

We are committed not only to this year, but to the sustained growth of America's presence globally.

I am concerned, by not having the baseline high enough, we run a risk in the future.

We need to do a better job in providing resources to promote democracy globally.

There is a whole generation alive today, working in their economies and on the future, as a result of U.S. leadership on PEPFAR.

I think I, if confirmed as Ambassador, will continue to have this conversation that has been an ongoing one with President Museveni to show that change is good sometimes--it brings different ideas; it brings different opportunities--but…

Creating democracy, creating multiparty democracy that functions in an appropriate manner is a process, as you know.

Absent the right kind of governance economic growth is not going to have the social impact it needs to have.

Your service as a member of the career Foreign Service also brings an important and vital perspective.

I have enjoyed working with MCC and look forward to continuing to do so in a new capacity, if I am confirmed.