Senator Coons talked with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Thursday about the possible nomination of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice as Secretary of State, and about the developing crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Senator Coons is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs.
You can watch the interview below:
Rev. Dr. Douglas Gerdts, pastor of First & Central Presbyterian Church in Wilmington, served as the guest chaplain and lead the Senate in its opening prayer on September 20, 2012. U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) selected Rev. Dr. Gerdts to be a guest chaplain from Delaware.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday morning to urge his Senate colleagues to stand together to help U.S. companies “insource” jobs by passing the Bring Jobs Home Act. The legislation, which Senator Coons is an original cosponsor of, ends taxpayer subsidies to companies that ship jobs overseas and incentivizes companies to bring jobs back to the United States. The bill is expected to be voted on by the full Senate on Thursday.
NEW YORK — Senator Coons was interviewed about the "fiscal cliff" on CBS This Morning Saturday, describing his work with a bipartisan group of senators hoping to make real, rsponsible progress on reducing the deficit and minimizing the impact on Americans of a series of tax and legal changes due to take effect later this year. Watch below:
Senator Coons spoke briefly at a press conference on the steps of the Supreme Court on Thursday, praising the Court's decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act. Watch:
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) took to the Senate floor on June 7, 2012 to discuss legislation he introduced with Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) to give renewable energy projects access to a tax incentive available now only to oil, gas, and coal projects. Their bill, the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act, brings fairness back to the tax code and helps level the playing field for investors in alternative energy projects.
Click here to read more about the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act.
The day before the Kony 2012 movement’s global day of action, U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) released a video on the Senate’s efforts to support the removal of Joseph Kony and his top lieutenants in the Lord’s Resistance Army from the battlefield in central Africa. Former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), is also featured in the video, which is aimed at the millions of young Americans who have become part of the Kony 2012 movement in the last month.
Senator Coons appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday to talk about his support for the Buffett Rule and other policies that promote fairness in our tax code. Watch below.
U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday morning about the partisan gridlock that has dangerously prolonged the confirmations of judicial nominees.
Click here to read the full text of the speech.
Did you miss President Obama's State of the Union address last night? You can watch it below, in its "enhanced" format from the White House.
And click here to download President Obama's "Blueprint for an America Built to Last."
Senator Coons was largely impressed with the President's strategy. Here's what he said in a statement afterward:
"President Obama tonight laid out a positive vision for where our country is headed, powered by an economy built to work for all Americans. I share President Obama’s belief that if you work hard and play by the rules in this country, you deserve a real shot at economic fairness. I look forward to working with him this year to restore the economic fairness we seem to have lost. President Obama’s blueprint touches all the right areas if you’re trying to build an economy that works for everyone. For the first time in 15 years, America’s manufacturing sector is growing again. We need to invest in that momentum, grow domestic and clean energy production, and enhance the skills of American workers. Importantly, we have to do it in a bipartisan way that is economically fair to all Americans.”
Throughout the day today here on the blog we'll post more specific thoughts on individual parts of the President's blueprint, including manufacturing, clean energy, equal pay for equal work, community colleges and more.