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  • Video: Senator Coons touts Equality Delaware at HRC Gala

    Senator Coons wasn't able to make it to the Human Rights Campaign's Philadelphia Gala on Saturday night, so he recorded a video urging attendees' support for Equality Delaware. “Equality Delaware already has my full support," he said, "but it needs yours, too. We have a real chance to pass marriage equality in Delaware this year, and show the next generation of LGBTQ youth that they are not broken; that they are not wrong; that they ARE equal.”

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  • Video: Senator Coons condemns anti-Semitic comments by Egyptian president

    In Cairo Wednesday as part of a Congressional delegation to the region, Senator Coons spoke with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about recently unearthed anti-Semitic comments made by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, and how those comments could impact Egypt's relationship with the U.S. Senator Coons had met with President Morsi just hours earlier.

    Senator Coons also discussed the devolving situation in Mali, where Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and affiliated extremists -- which already control two-thirds of the country -- have launched an offensive against the Malian government. French forces have gone in to assist the Malian army in meeting that threat.

    He later appeared on CNBC to discuss the kidnapping of 41 individuals -- including Americans -- by Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in response to the French action in Mali.

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  • Video: Senator Coons talks Susan Rice and DRC on MSNBC

    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:

  • Video: Rev. Gerdts from Wilmington leads the Senate in its opening prayer

    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.

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  • Video: Senator Coons urges colleagues to pass the Bring Jobs Home Act

    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.

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  • Video: Senator Coons talks fiscal cliff on CBS This Morning

    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:

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  • Video: Senator Coons speaks at Supreme Court

    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:

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  • Video: Senator Coons introduces bill to spark investment in renewable energy projects

    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.

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  • Video: Senators respond to Kony 2012 movement

    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.

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  • Senator Coons touts Buffett Rule on Morning Joe

    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.

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