The Public Record
Dan Coats is a former United States Senator from Indiana, serving from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Coats previously held the same Senate seat from 2001 to 2005. Before his Senate career, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989. Coats has been involved in various policy areas, including national security and foreign relations, and has been a vocal advocate for a strong defense policy. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany from 2005 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.
I call up amendment No. 514. It is a bipartisan amendment with Senator Manchin. It clarifies that a Presidential exemption exists for utilities that despite their good- faith efforts have been unable to complete the necessary measures to…
I rise today as the senior Senate Republican of the Joint Economic Committee to discuss one of the most fundamental issues this body confronts on a year-to-year basis, or at least should confront on a year-to-year basis, which is passing a…
I was puzzled earlier today when the Senate majority leader came to the floor to propose a unanimous consent request that we move forward with this continuing resolution. He is right, we should move forward with this. But I was puzzled by…
Well, clearly the sequester should be replaced by targeted action in the area of entitlement reform.
The fact is that Congress and the Executive Branch have failed to address the debt crisis effectively.
I think unfortunately we are perhaps inadvertently already in a fiscal disaster.
Many experts believe that our failure to seriously grapple with our ballooning national debt is already having a significant detrimental impact on economic growth.
Eventually, we will reach a point where investors either stop buying our debt or insist on higher interest rates.
Ironically, Senator Coats, the lead Senate Republican of this Committee has, along with Senator Wyden, proposed such an approach
Temporary stopgap measures solve little, if anything; they simply put off the inevitable day of reckoning.
Politicians like Dan Coats
