From October 31, 2022 post.
WILMINGTON, Del. – In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.) highlighted congressional Democrats’ record of accomplishments on Fox News Sunday yesterday, pointing to bipartisan legislation that invests in our infrastructure and supports advanced manufacturing jobs, as well as the Inflation Reduction Act, which will reduce health care costs for many Americans. He also highlighted the concrete steps Democrats have taken in Congress to reduce crime nationwide. You can watch the whole interview here.
Senator Chris Coons: We’ve got real accomplishments to point to. You didn’t hear a detailed plan for how Republicans would fight inflation, would bring gas prices down, would make our country stronger, but we’ve got a record both of President Biden passing significant bipartisan legislation on issues President Trump said he would deal with, like investing in infrastructure, like bringing advanced manufacturing for chips back to the United States, where the President signed bills into law that were bipartisan. We also have bills that only Democrats voted for, our Inflation Reduction Act, which is going to cap out-of-pocket costs, cap the price of insulin, and reduce prescription drug prices. That is one of the things that Americans say day in and day out, and I’ve said for years, is one of the pressing costs they’re concerned about. Democrats have taken action and addressed it. Last, the American Rescue Plan, that only Democrats voted for, provided funding to put teachers back in classrooms, to put cops back on the street. We’ve got a real record to run on.
Senator Chris Coons: Joe Biden has a strong record on crime as President. He said in the State of the Union: I don’t support defund the police, I support funding the police, and then acted on it. The American Rescue Plan specifically provided funding for state and local governments to keep law enforcement officers on the beat, and his plan for this year provides more money to hire more cops – 100,000 more police officers. Here in Delaware, we have three police agencies that just got a federal grant, as have hundreds of others across the country to hire more officers.
Senator Chris Coons: I do know that there are folks in my party really concerned about the mechanics of elections about folks running for office, in states like Arizona and Nevada, who deny that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential and who are running saying that they won’t accept the results of an election with which they disagree. I think all of us in the wake of this attack on Paul Pelosi need to say that we are going to stop demonizing folks, because I think those kinds of the sort of rhetoric that we’ve heard in too many ways, in too many places, can lead to violence by a small number of Americans who think that when we describe our political opponents as our enemies, we’re calling for them to be attacked. After the threat against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, I worked with Senator Cornyn across the aisle to get signed into law a bill to expand police protection of Supreme Court justices and their families. President Biden and Democrats have stood behind law enforcement and strengthening protections for those in public life.
Original source can be found here.
