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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.

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Feb 3, 2011

the NASA bill we passed last fall strongly reaffirmed that aeronautics research is an integral part of the agency and made the point in that bill of increasing a focus on NASA's aeronautics research programs. As a matter of fact, what does…

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Feb 3, 2011

it is very apparent that President Mubarak must step down. The longer he waits to realize he has to step down, the more difficult it is going to be in order to have an orderly transition and to keep the peace in Egypt. The longer he waits…

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Feb 2, 2011

it seems to me that what we ought to be doing with regard to this law is fixing it instead of repealing it. We ought to be focusing on fixing it instead of focusing on repeal. Already, unanimously, it seems, people have embraced different…

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Jan 26, 2011

If you would attend to that, I sure would appreciate it.

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Jan 26, 2011

As in any big organization, somewhere it has broken down with, for example, the two I just mentioned.

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Jan 26, 2011

I want to bring those frustrations to you, Mr. Feinberg, respectfully.

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Jan 26, 2011

At the end of the day, what we are trying to do is help people.

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Jan 26, 2011

People are hurting. When you have your electricity shut off, they are hurting.

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Jan 26, 2011

whenever a Senator, such as Senator Pryor from Arkansas, has to announce to the Senate the loss of a near personal friend, especially one he has been friends with, and with their parents, for years, it is always a tremendous loss. We are…

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Jan 26, 2011

That is a step in the right direction.

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Jan 26, 2011

Would it not have been a wise thing to do, to be beneficial to the people that are making the claim, to know how those claims were going to be evaluated before they submitted those claims?

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Jan 6, 2011

A big part of the discretionary outlays that grew during 2010 was the stimulus bill, and a big portion of the stimulus bill was the money going to the States, the State fiscal stabilization.

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