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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.
This is the widows or orphans amendment. You have already voted on this, 92 to 6, last fall. It is eliminating the offset between two different programs taking care of widows and orphans. It is a cost of war, just as providing equipment…
The question is, do you want to help the program or do you want to help the people? Members have all heard from their senior citizens. They are confused, they are bewildered, and in some cases frightened about this deadline coming up. They…
I can sum this up in 60 seconds. The choice here is between a direction by the Congress to definitely extend the deadline, or the alternative Senator Grassley is offering, which is to give the Secretary of HHS the discretion to extend the…
I would proffer a unanimous consent request that since the Senator from Iowa is not able to be here right now--it is my understanding he is delayed in traffic--I be able to proceed by offering my amendment.
I want to again commend the Senator for reminding the Senate of the substance of the issue. The substance of the issue is that Americans are quite concerned they are going to lose their civil liberties. They certainly want the Government…
All of you have heard from your senior citizens. With the implementation of the prescription drug bill, our seniors have so many plans to choose from that they are confused-- and, in some cases, they are bewildered; in some cases, they are…
Since this Senator was disciplined in his comments as promised, would the Senator be surprised that this amendment causes no increase in the Part B premium to senior citizens by offsetting what would be the enhanced payment to drug…
Given the fact that there are 42 million seniors who would be affected, would the Senator be surprised to know that this is a total of $1 billion that will come out of the pockets of seniors by the increased Medicare Part B premiums?
I will put it in the form of a question. Will the Senator be surprised to know that instead of it being $1.80, it is more like a $3- per-month increase in the Part B premium for seniors, on top of the 18- percent increase that is, in fact…
May I inquire? There are two amendments that I will be offering in tandem. What is the procedure that the Senators would like me to use in offering those amendments? They deal with the same subject.
Due to my travel to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Wilma, I missed the vote on Senator Byrd's title I amendment on the Labor-HHS appropriations bill. If I had been present, I would have voted to waive the Budget Act and approve…
Today, the entire Senate is on record. This amendment affirms the Senate's concerns over the free dissemination of radical and violent ideology and calls on the administration to add al- Manar to the Specially Designated Global Terrorist…
I am here for my daily speech on oil independence for this country. Before the assistant minority leader leaves the floor, as he has been such a leader in this area, and before this Senator launches into this series of conversations for…
So the answer, I say to the Senator from Illinois, it could well be knocked off if cloture is brought on this Defense authorization bill.
Let me tweak it a little bit for the Senator, and I thank the Senator for the compassion coming out of his heart and expressed on his face as he asks this question. This Senator from Illinois is right on. In the first place, in current law…
Under the Survivors Benefit Plan it does. However, there is another part of the law that says survivors shall receive a second benefit, Dependency and Indemnity Compensation, to attempt in one small way to make those survivors whole for…
I ask the Senator if we can see that photograph of the airplane, the C-130. Would the Senator be more amenable to this situation if he realized that the aircraft called Commando Solo has to fly all the way from Harrisburg, PA, to the…
I have been advised by my colleague from North Dakota that he would like to follow me, so I ask unanimous consent that the Senator from North Dakota follow me for a period of 20 minutes. And then it is my understanding that the Senator…
Mr. President we realize that for the first time the administration's budget included funding for the Modified Waters Delivery Project in the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. Prior to this year, it had been funded solely through the…
Mr. President I wholeheartedly thank Senator Reid for his work on behalf of the Everglades and look forward to working with him and Chairman Domenici on Everglades restoration in the future.
I thank the Senator for being so eloquent in laying out what is a looming crisis. The crisis is going to hit us. We may not suspect it. It may hit us in the way of radical Islamists suddenly taking over major countries where those…
Would it not be something if we could start to have all new vehicles be required, in some way, to be hybrid and/or higher miles per gallon standard, if that were combined with an additional thing like ethanol into gasoline, ethanol that…
I thank the Senator for laying out so clearly the fact that we are so dependent on foreign oil. If we really want to do something about it--as the Senator has explained by the charts, it is clear that most of the oil that is consumed in…
I am happy to yield to my distinguished and very persistent colleague from the State of Louisiana.
Indeed. And this Senator understands where both Senators from New Mexico are trying to get with the legislation. I certainly want you to get there and get there fast. Basically you come up with a list of amendments that would be considered…
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