Chris Coons

Highly potent, inexpensive, widely available heroin is now killing many people in my hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, and across my State.

I'm frankly very concerned that there is a proposal to transition ICANN completely away from Commerce Department oversight and management.

I'm an enthusiast for manufacturing.

Our efforts in Syria will deny ISIL safe haven while creating the conditions for a stable inclusive Syria that fulfills Syrian's aspirations for freedom and dignity.

I am grateful for your leadership and look forward to working together in ways to find bipartisan solutions.

I strongly support the investment, as Senator Leahy mentioned previously, in the Global Health Security efforts and the importance of strengthening health systems.

Yes, seven of the fastest growing economies in the world, according to the World Bank, are in Africa this decade.

I am also concerned about how DOE EPSCoR handled last year's Implementation Grant award process.

As you know, Delaware is an EPSCoR/IDeA State, and the EPSCoR/IDeA programs have been beneficial for many universities around the country.

Thank you for your decades of good and faithful service here.

I look forward to working with you to find ways to strengthen support for smaller harbors.

To me, one of the core components of the emergency preparedness, emergency management is preparing for climate change.

I very much appreciate the additional $62.5 million in the fiscal year 2015 work plan that will fully fund the work needed to be done in fiscal year 2016.

I think we need legislation through this Committee and in this body that will help rationalize mandatory, overly long drug sentences for non-violent offenders.

The current Attorney General Eric Holder has served in that office with distinction under very trying circumstances.

Congratulations on your historic nomination and your very fine conduct in this hearing today.

I am concerned that centrifuge R&D also be a central part of the negotiations.

We are negotiating for them to retain enough enrichment capacity

No deal is better than a bad deal

The right of inventors to profit from their inventions has been a bedrock principle of this country and has succeeded, perhaps beyond the wildest dreams of our Founding Fathers.

Thank you. As you know, I share your passion for ending fee diversion and ensuring the sustainability of PTO funding.

I agree, and I hope we can make some great progress on that this year.

IP is important to our economy.

These are the people, the men and women of small business across America, who will create the next generation of products, of foods, of services that we will love or the medicines we need to live.

I think there is a lot that we can do.