Chris Coons

I joined my colleagues, including Chairman Menendez, Ranking Member Corker, in sending a letter to the President expressing bipartisan support for seeking a new strategy that will break the stalemate on the ground and enable a meaningful…

I value your tireless leadership, your personal commitment to making sure that USAID is transparent, is responsive to congress, and spends taxpayer money as responsibly as possible.

I share your concern that the Development Assistance Account is under significant pressure.

I share and support the chairman's concerns about doing everything we can to secure Alan's release.

I frankly think it could stand to have more robust funding and, frankly, to have a dedicated line.

I urge you to continue to consult closely with Congress as you continue to make good on the prospect of peace around Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program.

I just think there are opportunities here to leverage private sector partnership with the public sector, over the long term.

Thank you so much for your tireless engagement and focus on the challenges that we face around the world.

I would hate to see us miss this opportunity when there are so many other things going on around the world.

I stand with many of my colleagues in ensuring that we provide you the resources you need in order to carry forward on any agreement delivered, and that that ultimate agreement prevent any pathway, whether through uranium or plutonium, to…

I think it affects our reputation in the U.N. and globally when we support a peacekeeping mission, but then don't meet our commitments.

I hope that we are not underfunding democracy and governance efforts by state and AID.

We are going to make another attempt at legislation this year.

I would just urge you--I think you are very effective in reaching out to private industry, and I would urge you to work with them.

Information sharing is critical to cybersecurity. It must be done in a way that protects privacy while providing security for our Nation.

First, alternatives to detention have been proven to be significantly less costly, incomparably effective in terms of our larger goals of deporting those who ultimately need to be deported.

I appreciate your answers to these questions.

Thank you, Senator Grassley.

Thank you for your collaboration and what Senator Nelson describes as a 30-year-old process to produce highly qualified nominees for the Federal bench from Florida.

I am certain this Committee will give these nominees a full and fair consideration.

I would like to support that and work closely with you on it because, at least my very local experience, there was an unintended result that there were people being detained longer than needed to be and in ways that were not entirely…

Alternatives to detention have been proven to be significantly less costly, incomparably effective in terms of our larger goals of deporting those who ultimately need to be deported.

The private sector has repeatedly raised to me that they are willing, even eager, to pay overtime.

I think we have some international obligations at issue here as well, and I would welcome a chance to be supportive when you complete your----

I would like to thank my colleague from Oregon, Senator Merkley, who has done a tremendous job laying out the scientific case, the compelling economic case, the cultural case, and the global case for why we here in the Senate need to wake…