Chris Coons

Parents should not have to be afraid to send their children to school, no child should live through the horror these girls have experienced, and no family should have to confront these threats alone.

I happen to be from the small State of Delaware where crime crosses city and county and State lines routinely.

One of the key Federal roles in this program is that the National Institutes of Justice test and certify which vests are appropriate, are current, are fitted appropriately, use the latest technology.

Do you see some value in a Federal role in supporting State and local law enforcement given how criminals do not stop when they hit the border?

As I look at the list of the agencies in Delaware that have been able to provide current custom-fitted vests for their officers, it runs from our one mid-sized city to our many small towns and our many rural areas.

I was deeply upset, disappointed, and angered that one of my colleagues continues to block consideration of this bill on the floor.

The bottom line here is that this bill must pass, and we should not rest in our efforts to do what is right by public safety officers all over this country.

We need more than speeches. We need some action.

I think what the SEC does is, like the CFTC, critically important to a well-functioning capital market that is secure and transparent.

I support funding the President's request at $1.7 billion.

It is a tremendous sense of satisfaction that I have gotten through working with Senator Hatch and with Eli Lilly and a number of other companies represented here today.

I could not agree more, and I appreciate that response.

Thank you, Senator Whitehouse. I would like to thank you for chairing this hearing and for the great work that you and Senator Graham have done to make sure that we protect America's intellectual property.

We thank Senators Coons and Hatch for their leadership.

The Coons-Hatch bill, your bill, would tremendously accelerate our ability to stop bad actors and get good results.

I need to say my profound personal thanks to Senator Hatch for being a great partner and a good leader on this issue.

I applaud the Chair today, Senator Whitehouse, and Senator Graham for their hard work in improving efforts to deal with that.

This is going to give us the ability to pursue people on the Federal level, not on the State level.

If a thief succeeds in stealing, as you put it, your secret sauce, it can literally mean the end of the business.

Jurisdictional clarity seems to me particularly important for a cyber event because, unlike a natural disaster, a cyber event could be a crime, a national security event, an act of war.

This is a very real threat. We have issues of jurisdiction, of funding, of workforce.

I come to the floor today to speak about the corrupting power of money in our national politics and the tragic impact of a whole series of decisions by the Supreme Court that has steadily strengthened that power. Over the last 40 years a…

I would like to start this afternoon by thanking Chairman Murray for her tireless work on the Budget Committee--on which I serve--to develop and pass a bipartisan budget, a budget that sets us on a path to return to regular order. Senator…

I was pleased that your budget suggested an increased investment in the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

American manufacturing has been making a comeback over the last 4 years.