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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.
Bottom line: What is this about? This is about fair and equal treatment for the American people and producing a Federal judiciary that will be open minded. Over two centuries ago, a group of political geniuses got together and crafted a…
If we would stop this excessive partisanship--you cannot get things done with this excessive partisanship. Especially, you cannot get it done in a Senate that is basically split down the middle, 50-50. I think it is 51-49 now. So if you…
I must also say that my degree of frustration--and usually if I am frustrated, it is with a smile because of enjoying my colleagues here so much; but my one frustration is that this place is way too partisan. And, from time to time, this…
I wish to say that, of course, the junior Senator from Florida was sad to hear the announcement of the senior Senator from Florida announcing his retirement. Senator Bob Graham is one of the most distinguished public servants who has ever…
I rise to commend the Senators who have brought this legislation forward and say how gracious they have been to me in working to address the seriousness of this issue of spam. I wanted to commend the Senator from Oregon for his leadership…
I ask the minority leader if he would comment further after his clear statement of having five times requested information about discrepancies in the White House with regard to the outing of a CIA agent. If I recall, when this fiasco broke…
This Nation's fiscal policy is careening off the road into bankruptcy. And that means, if we are having to go out and borrow money--by the way, borrowing it from places such as Saudi Arabia and the Chinese--in order to pay our bills, that…
I would merely reflect, in conclusion, as we conclude this hearing, the image that is seared in my mind's eye of the view out the window of our spacecraft back at Planet Earth on the 24th flight of the space shuttle, when I was privileged…
You know, Senator, I've been looking forward to being Chairman of the Commerce Committee.
I'd work the international community on this issue like crazy, and what I'd do on things like the energy bill...
Most of our development is along the coast. And, of course, with the rising of the sea, that then threatens property.
I tried to offer some leadership on this issue in the mid-1990s as the elected insurance commissioner of Florida.
So we are talking about the protection of the interests of this country, and not only those in the active service right now but those who are retired who in times of emergency are called back as well.
I support the Senator and his amendment. There are certain things in life, if we apply our efforts, our research, our development, our technology, we can ultimately lick. One of them that, of course, we are working real hard on is cancer…
According to intelligence reports made public yesterday, terrorists may be plotting suicide missions by hijacking commercial airliners, most likely in the United States, but clearly it could be anywhere in the world. Such a plot is…
I would like to remind Senators Cochran and Byrd that the MATRIX program has received $10 million in grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security.
We are faced with a changed world following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It is imperative that our Nation's first responders be given the necessary tools they need to fight this war. From our Nation's busiest ports and key…
By the administration's own figures, they are projecting the budget deficit--that is, the amount of money that we have to go out and borrow to pay our existing debts--in this fiscal year as $455 billion as illustrated by the chart the…
Would not the Senator wonder, then, since they refused to do that, and here we are in the middle of a war and a soldier is getting killed every day, would the Senator not wonder why they don't? I think that it might be that it just shows…
I want, in the course of this debate, for us to be told in this debate a satisfactory explanation of why we are not planning for the supplemental on the Defense appropriations for the war in Iraq, why we are not planning for that and…
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