Christopher A. Coons

17 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2010

• Senator DE 2010–present

• background Born September 9, 1963; a lawyer and member of the Democratic Party
• background Graduated from Amherst College, Yale Divinity School, and Yale Law School; worked as volunteer relief worker in Kenya and for Coalition for the Homeless in New York
• achievement County executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010; balanced budget with surplus in fiscal year 2010 and maintained AAA bond rating
• role Won 2010 Senate special election, defeating Republican Christine O'Donnell; senior U.S. Senator from Delaware since 2010, elected to full term in 2014
• role Vice chair of Senate Ethics Committee (chaired 2021-2025); serves on Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Judiciary, and Small Business committees
• role Delaware's senior senator and dean of state congressional delegation since January 2025 when Tom Carper retired

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 93.3%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 67
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 560 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 1
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 67 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 9 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 19
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Christopher A. Coons. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Department of Defense Subcommittee Ranking Member
• East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Appropriations Committee
• Border Security and Immigration Subcommittee
• Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Technology, Telecom
• Crime and Counterterrorism Subcommittee
• Ethics (Select) Committee Vice Chairman
• Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee · oversees Finance
• Foreign Relations Committee
• Judiciary Committee · oversees Technology
• Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Privacy, Technology, and the Law Subcommittee · oversees Technology
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee
• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Africa and Global Health Policy Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Energy and Water Development Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Intellectual Property Subcommittee
• State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development Subcommittee

Data from FEC, itemized campaign receipts

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Coons most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Coons connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov