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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.
Mr. President, I say to the Senator from Nebraska, this Senator has had too many opportunities to give the same kind of speech in remembrance of fallen Floridians just like her constituent who gave the ultimate sacrifice in protection of…
Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the November 15, 2018, vote on the motion to table the motion to discharge S.J. Res. 65, a joint resolution relating to the disapproval of the proposed export to the Government of the Kingdom of…
Mr. President, the subject the Senator from Delaware speaks of--climate change especially--affects my State of Florida, as we are ground zero with so many of the consequences of climate change-- the sea level rise. I will be addressing…
Madam President, I intend to be giving a number of speeches over the course of the next couple of weeks to comment on various matters on which I have had the privilege of working. I want to say, with regard to the election, that things…
We're tasking NASA to explore the heavens, but we need the commercial space sector to take off.
It is my hope that Congress will finally do the right thing by providing the FTC with the increased funding and personnel.
It is all too common today... that we are beginning to see creep into the agencies the same thing that is happening in the body politic: the tribalism that has now entered and dominating our political milieu.
The FTC remains a relatively small agency. For years, I have consistently advocated that the FTC be provided with more resources.
Mr. President, this is an example of where the Senate can get something done. There were many twists and turns to the Coast Guard bill, but at the end of the day, we all came together in a bipartisan way to get it done, and I thank the…
Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the October 10, 2018, vote on the motion to invoke cloture on Executive Calendar No. 640, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Attorney General. I would have voted no. Mr…
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