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
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jayanta Bhattacharya to be Director of the National Institutes of Health	Nay	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Michael Kratsios, of South Carolina, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Michael Kratsios to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Christopher Landau, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of State	Yea	Mar 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: John Phelan, of Florida, to be Secretary of the Navy	Yea	Mar 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Christopher Landau to be Deputy Secretary of State	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: John Phelan to be Secretary of the Navy	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1968 — Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025	Nay	Mar 14, 2025	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Paul Amdt. No. 1266	Nay	Mar 14, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Van Hollen Amdt. No. 1272	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Duckworth Amdt. No. 1274	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Merkley Amdt. No. 1273	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1968 — Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025	Nay	Mar 14, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 331 — HALT Fentanyl Act	Yea	Mar 14, 2025	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Stephen Feinberg, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Defense	Nay	Mar 14, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Stephen Feinberg to be Deputy Secretary of Defense	Nay	Mar 14, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 331 — HALT Fentanyl Act	Yea	Mar 13, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Jeffrey Kessler, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security	Nay	Mar 13, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jeffrey Kessler to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security	Nay	Mar 13, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: William Pulte, of Florida, to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency	Nay	Mar 13, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: William Pulte to be Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency	Nay	Mar 13, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Keith Sonderling, of Florida, to be Deputy Secretary of Labor	Nay	Mar 12, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Keith Sonderling to be Deputy Secretary of Labor	Nay	Mar 12, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Stephen Miran, of New York, to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers	Nay	Mar 12, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Stephen Miran to be Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers	Nay	Mar 12, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	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.