Earlier this year, Senator Mike Lee and I introduced the Stop Debt Collection Abuse Act.
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.
H.R. 4932, the ROBOCOP (Repeated Objectionable Bothering of Consumers on Phones) Act, gives consumers the ability to protect themselves from scam robocalls.
I would say to the Senator from Missouri that while this Senator is most appreciative that he and Senator Murray have come forth in a bipartisan fashion with about half of the funding that this Senator--also in a bipartisan proposal, since…
Along with 24 of my fellow Attorneys General, I support S. 2235, the HANGUP Act.
The law says that it's illegal, robocalls on cell phones. And yet, our consumers receive millions of those robocalls on cell phones.
Mr. Chairman, if you go anywhere in this country and you ask a consumer, 'Do you want to receive robocalls?' or you ask them, 'Would you like to receive robocalls on your cell phone?'--you may get the cell phone thrown at you.
I want to give an update. The Zika virus is raging. It is certainly raging in Puerto Rico. It is expanding greatly in this country, and the State with the most infected cases is my State of Florida. I have been on this floor many times…
I will talk about the Zika virus, but I want to first add a comment about Senator Bob Bennett. A gentleman's gentleman, a legislator's legislator, a Senator who would reach across the aisle in order to get the workable consensus in order…
Inspectors General have the important task of combating waste, fraud, and abuse within Federal agencies.





