AIPLA Direct Live: Senator Chris Coons
July 30, 2020 12:15 PM to 12:45 PM
Tune in on July 30, 2020, at 12:15 PM EDT for our next installment of AIPLA Direct LIVE and hear from US Senator Chris Coons.
Meet Senator Coons
Chris has spent his career in the Senate focused on working across the aisle to get things done for the people of Delaware. In recent years, the Bipartisan Policy Center recognized Chris for his commitment to bipartisanship and awarded him its Legislative Action Award and the independent congressional tracking website GovTrack ranked Chris in the top three most productive Senators of both parties.
Chris serves on the Senate Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and Ethics committees. He is the vice chair of the Ethics Committee and the senior Democrat on two subcommittees: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.
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