Archiv: Chris Coons


24.10.2023 - 04:00 [ Times of Israel ]

Visiting US senators: Hamas must be destroyed, war was opened to prevent Saudi peace

Delaware Democrat Chris Coons also said that the Abraham Accords and progress toward normalization were among Hamas’s reasons to attack now.

Graham added that 10 percent of the US Senate is currently in Israel “because we care… I come here because I love Israel. I do not hate Palestinians. I hate Hamas.”

Graham also had stark words of warning for Tehran: “We’re here today to tell Iran, we’re watching you. If this war grows, it’s coming to your backyard. There won’t be two fronts, there will be three.”

24.04.2018 - 09:22 [ Fox News ]

Coons‘ bipartisan gesture during Pompeo panel brings colleague to tears

Coons finally arrived. However, Isakson was still in Georgia. The vote to report Pompeo out of committee with a favorable recommendation would be 10-10.

A tie.

By rule, ties fail. But Corker forged ahead, declaring that Isakson, despite his absence was “aye by proxy.” So 11-10. Still, committee rules forbid proxy votes on behalf of absent senators if they impact the outcome of a roll call tally. So there was a conundrum.

24.04.2018 - 09:02 [ Andrew Solender ‏/ Twitter ]

Senator Chris Coons, A DEMOCRAT, abstained at the request of Bob Corker and allowed Pompeo‘s nomination to go to the senate floor. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!?

If they oppose the nominee they should vote no! That‘s how congress works!

24.04.2018 - 09:00 [ Russell Berman / Twitter ]

Even after Rand Paul changed his mind, the Pompeo vote was still stuck at 10-10 because GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson was absent. But Dem Sen. Chris Coons agreed to vote present to move it along

24.04.2018 - 08:57 [ CommonDreams.org ]

Thanks to Rand Paul‘s „Cowardly Flip-Flop,“ Senate Committee Approves Warmonger Pompeo

„In voting to recommend Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted against diplomacy today, and for a foreign policy even more inclined towards war,“ Paul Kawika Martin, senior director for policy and political affairs at Peace Action said in a statement following the vote. „Pompeo‘s record of warmongering, climate denial, and Islamophobia speaks for itself.“