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.
we have a vote coming up at 5:30 on the Zika crisis. Unfortunately, it is not the vote we voted on in the bipartisan bill which there were 69 votes in favor of out of 100 Senators and which we then sent to the House. The House then added a…
Just that I am so happy that the bipartisan nature of this Committee continues, and I will do what most Senators do not do. I will shut up.
today I wish to honor MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, during its 75th anniversary year. MacDill's humble start began during its construction when aircrews of the 29th Bomber Group landed their B-17 Flying Fortress bombers on a nearby…
I ask unanimous consent that Warren Ponto, the committee's detailee from the FAA, be allowed privileges of the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
I have often thought of our ability to protect ourselves in cyber as that we are really almost like the standoff in the nuclear, assured mutual destruction.
at 1:45 p.m. today, we are going to vote on the FAA bill. It is coming back, in essence, as a conference report, although it was negotiated directly with the House. So we will take up the House message. I thank Senator Thune, the chairman…
Not only is that true, those four things, but then the House of Representatives put it on a very good bill, the MILCON appropriations, and they sent it down here thinking that we were going to have to take it at the eleventh hour with all…
It is true, and not only is it true that the President requested it, but immediately, a whole bunch of us out here filed a bill and brought it to the attention of the Senate, and it is now 5 months later.
Not only the good fortune but the great privilege, and now I have the opportunity to work on the policy for the Nation's space program.





