Jun 9, 2010
You cannot leave BP in control of this because they are not going to get it done.
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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Jun 9, 2010
We have to find somebody to put in charge that has the guts and the will to make decisions.
Jun 8, 2010
Yes, and you already have taxpayer participation with regard to the trust fund.
Jun 8, 2010
This comes down to whether or not you want to lessen the likelihood that you have these kinds of spills in the future.
Jun 7, 2010
my worst fears are coming true. The wind that had so blessed us in our State of Florida for going on 7 weeks now shifted a few days ago, and this big spill of oil is moving to the east and to the northeast, and it is closing in on the gulf…
May 28, 2010
I filed two amendments to the emergency supplemental bill that focused on the desperate need for gulf fisheries data in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon spill. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration knows our oceans and has…
May 26, 2010
yesterday, the inspector general for the Department of the Interior came out with their report-- this investigative report--which followed another inspector general report of just a month ago. These two inspectors general reports talk…
May 25, 2010
Can the Senator from New Jersey believe the fact that we hear people being apologist for BP? It is clear we hope and pray this ``kill'' of the well that is going to be attempted in the morning is going to be successful. But on all the…
May 25, 2010
my question additionally to the Senator from New Jersey would be, given the fact of the pictures we now see of the devastation occurring in some of the marshlands in Louisiana, along with the shots of the few beaches that are now covered…
May 25, 2010
If I may ask the Senator from New Jersey a question, can the Senator believe once we got up the live feed, 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, that once experts, specialists, professors, were able to see what, in fact, had…
May 25, 2010
If this thing is not fixed today, I think the president doesn't have any choice. He better go in, completely take over, perhaps with the military in charge.
May 25, 2010
If they don't, I think the president has no choice but to do what Senator Nelson was arguing today, and that was to put the government in charge, with bringing in the military to help coordinate that.
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