Christopher A. Coons

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Environment & Energy 2 Technology & Privacy 2 Civil Rights & Liberties 1 Defense & Military 1 Foreign Policy & Trade 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 2), DE current Delaware	Democratic	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), DE Delaware	Democratic	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2021	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), DE Delaware	Democratic	Nov 15, 2010	Jan 3, 2015	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Defense — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Africa and Global Health Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Intellectual Property unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Privacy, Technology, and the Law unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Select Committee on Ethics — Vice Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.240, social dim. -0.208. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Rosen Amdt. No. 2152	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Wyden Amdt. No. 1989	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Warnock Amdt. No. 2177	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Markey Amdt. No. 1529	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Baldwin Amdt. No. 1693	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive Section 305(b)(2) of the CBA re: Cortez Masto Amdt. No. 1690	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Sanders Amdt. No. 2126	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Kim Amdt. No. 1644	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Hirono Amdt. No. 2180	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Hickenlooper Amdt. No. 2107	Yea	Apr 5, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Ossoff Amdt. No. 2186	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Paul Amdt. No. 1760	Nay	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Bennet Amdt. No. 1646	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Padilla Amdt. No. 1774	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Schumer Amdt. No. 1884	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Alsobrooks Amdt. No. 1466	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Warner Amdt. No. 1310	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Lujan Amdt. No. 1726	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Reed Amdt. No. 1645	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Merkley Amdt. No. 1758	Yea	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Sullivan Amdt. No. 2035	Nay	Apr 4, 2025	Amendment Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HCONRES 14 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary…	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Harmeet Dhillon, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 26 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to Israel of certain defense articles and…	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,000 recorded contributions totalling $2,186,985. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 239 of 1000 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	213	$633,847	29%
Corporate PAC	26	$173,596	8%
Unclassified	761	$1,379,542	63%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$29,500	COONS LEADERSHIP FUND	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Jun 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$20,000	COONS LEADERSHIP FUND	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Jan 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$6,600	COONS LEADERSHIP FUND	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Mar 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$6,600	COONS LEADERSHIP FUND	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,321	AMALGAMATED BANK	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Aug 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,308	AMALGAMATED BANK	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Jul 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,206	AMALGAMATED BANK	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	May 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,061	AMALGAMATED BANK	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Jun 28, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	HEALTHCARE DISTRIBUTION ALLIANCE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Mar 6, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	BREAD FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC. PAC (AKA BREAD FINANCIAL PAC)	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Dec 20, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Oct 28, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONVENIENCE STORES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Mar 21, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	AMGEN INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Oct 5, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	IMPACT	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Dec 20, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	HOLLAND & KNIGHT COMMITTEE FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT	CHRIS COONS FOR DELAWARE	Corporate PAC	Jun 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.