Feb 22, 2025
All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have.
Bill Nelson
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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.
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by number of sources- American consumers and public safety officials increasingly find themselves confronted by scams in the digital age. One of the most recent scams is known as caller I.D. ``spoofing.'' Today, I am introducing a bipartisan bill with Senators Snowe, McCaskill and Klobuchar--The Truth in Caller I.D. Act of 2009-- to put an end to fraudulent caller I.D. spoofing. What is caller I.D. spoofing? It's a technique that allows a telephone caller to alter the phone number that appears on the recipient's caller I.D. system. In other words, spoofing allows someone to hide behind a misleading telephone number to try to scam consumers or trick law enforcement officers. Let me give you a few shocking examples of how caller I.D. spoofing has been exploited during the past 4 years: In one very dangerous hoax, a sharp-shooting SWAT team was forced to shut down a neighborhood in New Brunswick, NJ, after receiving what they believed was a legitimate distress call. But what really happened was a caller used spoofing to trick law enforcement into thinking that the emergency call was coming from a certain apartment in that neighborhood. It was all a cruel trick perpetrated with a deceptive telephone number.5 sources2009govinfo.gov
- if the Senator will further yield, and I will conclude with this. The American people need to understand there is so much agreement behind the closed doors on the Intelligence Committee, as they are invested with the oversight of what is going on in order to protect our blessed country. My plea now is we would get to the point that as the chairman has suggested, even by waiting until tomorrow, we can collapse this time and get on to passing this by sending down some minor modifications to the House that they can accept, then get it to the President so this important program that tries to protect us from terrorists can continue. I thank the Senator for yielding.4 sources2015govinfo.gov
- I would like the record to reflect that such an invitation by Senator Thune, our Chairman, was not extended.3 sources2015congress.gov
- I would like the Senator from Louisiana to underscore the fact that the $30 billion put into this lending program, which will inure to the benefit of small business, is going to end up multiplying like the fishes and the loaves; it will end up being worth, over that 10-year period, $300 billion.3 sources2010govinfo.gov
- I thank the Senator for yielding, Mr. President. I am going to say two short paragraphs, but first, my commendations to the leadership that has already been mentioned by the esteemed majority leader; my commendations to my colleague, our chairman on the commerce committee, Senator Thune, who has been a pleasure to work with; and my thanks to the staff, including Kim Lipsky, the staff director for our minority staff on the commerce committee. I want to echo what you have said. Because of this bill, we are going to provide States and communities with over $300 billion over 5 years to repair the roads and bridges of this country and greatly improve rail and port projects, and as a result, we are going to create jobs. In my State of Florida, this translates to $12 million that can be used for improvements on Interstate 95, Interstate 75, and projects, such as SunRail, Tri-rail, and the streetcars in Fort Lauderdale. This is just a small example, and I am so grateful to everyone. I thank everyone very much. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma.3 sources2015govinfo.gov
- I was necessarily absent for yesterday's vote to confirm the nomination of John Michael Vazquez of New Jersey to be U.S. district judge for the District of New Jersey. I would have voted yea. Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for today's votes on Senator Markey's amendment, No. 2982, and Senator Crapo's amendment, No. 3021, to the Energy Policy Modernization Act, S. 2012. I would have voted yea on both of these amendments. ____________________3 sources2016govinfo.gov
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Apr 10, 2024
When we find those, by the way, not only looking for life, we start to understand their development, and we better understand who we are, why we are here, how we got here, and all of this evolution of the cosmos.
Apr 10, 2024
Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.
Apr 10, 2024
Our decision is that it is more profitable for us to go to the South Pole of the Moon, because we think that is where the water is.
Apr 10, 2024
Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.
Apr 10, 2024
Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.
Apr 10, 2024
Funding NASA is critical to getting back to the moon, advancing our scientific understanding, and driving innovation.
Feb 21, 2024
NASA administrator Bill Nelson actually said that he envisions a world where the south pole of the moon is a gas station of sorts for the moon.
May 16, 2023
We are going to have a 3D compendium of everything that is happening to the earth.
May 16, 2023
that would mean 25 percent less fuel, which is a good thing for the airlines, but might also be a good thing in the overall energy policy of the country.
May 16, 2023
We do everything that we can to partner with not only commercial industry but also universities and other academic institutions.
May 16, 2023
It will fly supersonic but its design is such a radical design, that instead of pushing the bow wave going through the atmosphere, as you go from subsonic to supersonic, which causes that audible sound that goes 'boom, boom,' it will…
May 16, 2023
For NASA to continue to innovate, we need to attract the next generation of engineers, inventors, chemists, biologists, astronauts, and so much more.
May 16, 2023
It is the research and development that allows this country to move forward.
May 16, 2023
We cannot identify every object. However, NEO Surveyor will be able to identify 90 percent of all the potential asteroids that are greater than 140 meters wide within the 10 years of the launch.
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