President Biden’s bid to secure bipartisan support for his $2.25 infrastructure package is off to a rocky start.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), a close Biden ally, says there will be only one month set aside to hammer out a deal with Republicans and right now it’s nowhere near to happening.
Biden is already sniping with key moderates such as Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine). Continue reading.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) told the FBI last year about a sexual misconduct allegation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that was at the heart of a New York Times piece published over the weekend, reports the Washington Post.
Why it matters: Coons’ letter to FBI director Christopher Wray described an account from Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate Max Stier and was dated Oct. 2, 2018 — days before Kavanaugh was confirmed by the Senate on Oct. 6. The FBI, despite conducting a supplemental background investigation into Kavanaugh after multiple allegations of sexual assault and misconduct, did not investigate the allegation in Coons’ letter.
What he said: Coons told Wray that he had “several individuals” contact him to levy allegations against Kavanaugh, but he singled out the Stier allegation as “one individual whom I would like to specifically refer to you for appropriate follow up,” per the Post.
View the complete September 16 article on the Axios website here.
Appearing on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) confided to host Alisyn Camerota that multiple Republican senators agree with Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) that Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses, but are afraid to go public at the moment.
Following a weekend filled with talk of Amash’s anti-Trump apostasy, Coons was asked by the host what GOP sentiment about Trump is like in the Senate.
“I was surprised to see a Republican congressman saying publicly what many are thinking privately,” Coons explained. “Those who have read the Mueller report cannot avoid the conclusion that the president and some of his advisers engaged in profoundly disappointing, reprehensible conduct that would rise to the level of obstruction of justice. “
View the complete May 20 article by Tom Boggioni of Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.
The following article by Ed O’Keefe was posted on the Washington Post website February 5, 2018:
Talks to resolve the legal status of young undocumented immigrants and enact new border security measures remain stalled in the closely divided Senate on Monday, as a new bipartisan proposal to resolve the impasse was dismissed by the White House as insufficient.
The proposal by Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.) would grant permanent legal status to undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” and bolster security along the U.S.-Mexico border. It copies a plan introduced in the House that has 54 co-sponsors from both parties. But President Trump tweeted that the idea is a “total waste of time” because it doesn’t immediately authorize spending the billions to build new barriers along the border. Continue reading “A new bipartisan immigration plan surfaces in the Senate — and Trump labels it a ‘total waste of time’”
The following article by Julia Manchester was posted on the Hill website February 4, 2018:
Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Christopher Coons (D-Del.) will introduce immigration legislation on Monday in an effort to reach a budget deal before the federal government’s current funding runs out on Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The bipartisan piece of legislation provides recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, commonly known as “Dreamers,” an opportunity for citizenship while ordering a study to figure out what border security measures are needed, according to the Journal.
DACA aimed to protect from deportation certain immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally when they were children. Continue reading “McCain, Coons to introduce new immigration bill that omits wall funding: report”
