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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.

Jul 13, 2011

Mr. President, because I was on the floor, the remarkable Senate staff, who do this so much in a routine fashion, asked me to do this. Of course, it was with enormous emotion that I watched Atlantis soar into the heavens last Friday. This…

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Jul 13, 2011

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the consideration of S. Res. 233, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The assistant legislative clerk read as…

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Jul 13, 2011

Mr. President, the Budget Committee chairman, the Senator from North Dakota, has, in fact, laid out a budget. It puts us on a serious road toward budget balance by utilizing real numbers, not sleight of hand numbers, not budget fakery…

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Jul 13, 2011

Mr. President, I request unanimous consent to speak up to 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mr. Nelson of Florida pertaining to the introduction of S. 1364 are printed in today's Record…

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Jul 13, 2011

Madam President, I know we have a vote that is coming up momentarily, but I just wanted to say my wish for those folks who are huddling up down at the White House every day: Don't miss this opportunity for a grand bargain to do something…

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Jul 13, 2011

Amen to that. And isn't that typical of the U.S., that we get something started and then others pick it up?

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Jul 13, 2011

Dr. McLendon, give us an example on that Lockheed case where there's a Lockheed scientists with one of your scientists. What are they developing?

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Jul 13, 2011

Does the nanoparticle get to the submolecule level, or is it at the molecule level?

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Jul 13, 2011

By the way, I was the first and only lawyer to go into space, and NASA has still not publicized that fact.

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Jul 13, 2011

And so the best practices that you think that other states ought to consider would be a lot of this bringing together of private partner--public partnerships?

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