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.
I urge the Members of this Committee to support including export control reform measures within the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
This is an important time for us to have this hearing because we are in the state of change from a reliable system of the Space Shuttle now bringing in commercial but, in parallel, continuing NASA's mission of exploring the heavens, of…
So this is a very important time that we get it right and that the success that we have had thus far is quite promising.
Under what appears to be going to be the number coming out of the NASA appropriations bill for commercial crew, $525 million, with a down select to two and a half competitors, when do you think that with $525 million -- what is the…
I want to thank the witnesses for being especially very much to the point and mindful of the time.
This issue is extremely important. It is compensating Holocaust survivors and their loved ones for the value of insurance policies they held before and during World War II.
And so clearly, when you come to the national security interests, you do have interests and you got to pay attention to them.
the purpose of this bill is to allow survivors and heirs who believe that they may have claims against European insurers because of unpaid policies from the Holocaust to sue those insurers in U.S. courts.





