Bill Nelson: “Next Tuesday--not Monday but Tuesday--we are going to have a series of votes and ultimately get to the final vote on the…”

“Next Tuesday--not Monday but Tuesday--we are going to have a series of votes and ultimately get to the final vote on the flood insurance bill. And miraculously, out of the air comes a couple of energy packages side by side that we are going to be voting on. It is very interesting that in one of those energy packages, that being offered by the Senator from New Mexico, Mr. Domenici, it will have a provision for drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. Now, we have gone through this drill about drilling several times, the last of which, I want to remind the Senate, when the pro drilling for oil forces wanted an additional 2 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which would go east in the eastern Gulf of Mexico headed straight toward Tampa, FL, we worked out something that would satisfy all of the parties; that they would not have 2 million acres but they would have 8 million acres--8 million acres, not 2 million acres. But it would be further to the south, not to the east and, therefore, would not harm the interests of Florida or the U.S. military.”