Chris Coons

I believe the American people deserve, and our values demand, exactly this sort of a robust and open debate.

It is not right to expect that the only people who sacrifice would be our troops and their families.

We cannot write another blank check for war, as was unfortunately the case under previous Presidents and previous Congresses for previous conflicts.

It is my real hope that we will take action--an action that leads to change, that leads to hope.

The costs, both the lifetime costs, the moral cost, the fiscal costs on African-American men in particular, as my colleague, Senator Booker detailed earlier, is overwhelming.

I am clear that without this sort of action that you, Mr. Chairman, have led in leading this bipartisan bill, we will not make progress.

There is an undeniably disparate impact on communities of color and there are several different ways that we could also have broken that out.

I am a cosponsor and a supporter of the Smarter Sentencing Act that he and Senator Lee have advanced.

I come to the floor today my heart heavy with a challenging task, which is to convey the remarkable, the special, the powerful spirit of a friend who passed 3 weeks ago in a tragic accident in India. Matt Haley was a remarkable Delawarean…

If we have a Shia-only government and military, it is not sustainable, and that is in some ways what created the vacuum.

I share your grave concern about ISIL, the threat it poses to our regional allies and to the United States.

I think reconciliation between Shia and Sunni in the formal government and in the underground conditions in Iraq is absolutely essential to our having a prospect of success.

I am very concerned about the stability, security, safety of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it adjourn under the previous order following the remarks of Senator Sessions for up to 40 minutes. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so…

On Monday, September 8, 2014, at 5:30 p.m., there will be at least three rollcall votes on confirmation of the Pryor nomination to be U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit; confirmation of the Aaron nomination to be a member of the…

Before I conclude I simply wanted to thank the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and our chair, Senator Bob Menendez, for hosting--along with the House Foreign Affairs Committee--yesterday a very successful reception in the…

I now ask for a second reading en bloc, and I object to my own request en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Objection having been heard, the bills will be read the second time on the next legislative day. ____________________

I understand there are two bills at the desk, and I ask for their first reading en bloc. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The clerk will read the bills by title for the first time en bloc. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill…

I have never been more optimistic about Africa and about the potential for a U.S. partnership with Africa than I am today. Every year I host a conference in my home State of Delaware called ``Opportunity: Africa'' that brings together…

I come to the floor today to talk about jobs, about manufacturing jobs in particular. As we in the Senate get ready to leave Washington and return home to our States for August, it has become popular in the media to say our legislative…

I want to make sure that we have the abilities, skills, and resources to do it.

I think we should be investing heavily in a proactive inspection regime.

I support the administration's ongoing efforts to ensure that we completely eliminate any pathway for Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.

I am gravely concerned that we will have great difficulty keeping together the sanctions regime over the long haul.

I remain deeply concerned about some critical and unresolved issues in these negotiations.