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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.

May 5, 2014

Mr. President, I rise to recognize an important meeting taking place this week at the Scripps Research Institute in my home State of Florida that coincides with Older Americans Month. Leaders in the field of aging and medical research are…

Congressional Record · 2014-05-05
May 5, 2014

Mr. Putin continues to be very aggressive, and whether it is uniformed personnel on the border of Ukraine...

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Apr 29, 2014

Mr. President, if you live along the southeastern coast of the United States, you know the sea level is rising. We have a lot of people who would question the reason for this rise of the sea level. Some people deny there is climate change…

Congressional Record · 2014-04-29
Apr 29, 2014

We are here to spotlight the worst practices in an industry that has run amuck and largely remains in the shadows.

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Apr 21, 2014

From 1993 to 2015, what is the NASA satellite measurement of total increase?

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Apr 21, 2014

We ought to be listening to the 99 percent of scientific evidence.

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Apr 21, 2014

And you already have this in the works in anticipation of this fall.

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Apr 21, 2014

My take-home impression--when I say ``home,'' I mean here, Earth--is that we inhabit a very beautiful but delicate planet.

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Apr 21, 2014

We can't afford to, with Florida being ground zero.

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Apr 21, 2014

I want you to know that I come to the table not only as someone who has seen Florida grow over the years as a fifth generation Floridian.

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Apr 21, 2014

And during that time in the 1990s, I could not get insurance companies to pay attention--American insurance companies to pay attention--to climate change and sea level rise.

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