
Christopher A. Coons
Democrat · DE · U.S. Senate
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Bio
Christopher Andrew Coons is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Delaware, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the county executive of New Castle County from 2005 to 2010.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.9 years
- First took office
- 2010 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 40 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 63
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Wilmington, DE · 302-573-6345
- Dover, DE · 302-736-5601
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $5.7M – $24.7M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- $4.2M – $23.9M
- Since 2018
- +$9.1M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Christopher A. Coons's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Christopher A. Coons (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Coonssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 membersAfrica and Global Health PolicyEast Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy (Ranking Member)Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental PolicyState Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Coons's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
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