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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.
Is it true that in the proposal from the chairman in the House of Representatives, he would take the Medicaid Program--which, generally, is a split, something like 55 percent Federal money, with 45 percent State money, for the health care…
Would the Senator believe the experience of the State of Florida: When they tried to put all Medicaid into insurance companies--otherwise known as HMOs, health maintenance organizations--those organizations pulled out of serving the poor…
I say in conclusion--and I thank the Senator for yielding--all you have to do is ask a senior citizen do they like their Medicare or would they prefer to have it done by an insurance company, and I think you will get a resounding answer.
Mr. President, first of all, I wish to say to the Senator from Alaska that she knows of my respect for her and my personal friendship with her and my personal opinion that she is one of the finest Senators we have. I do want to ask the…
Mr. President, as the Senator from Alaska is leaving the floor, I will say to her that I appreciate her point of view and what she has expressed. There is certainly an opportunity for working something out. As I stated in my question to…
And a further question to the Senator from Illinois: Would he characterize the proposal by the chairman in the House of Representatives on Medicare as not only cutting the payments to Medicare but the way Medicare is being delivered by…
In the Senator's opinion, why would the Republicans, particularly from the House of Representatives, want to cut Social Security, since the Social Security system has little, if any, effect upon us getting our arms around the deficit and…
Mr. President, I rise today to introduce legislation on a subject that is never far from the minds of citizens in my home State of Florida, folks along the Gulf Coast, or on the Atlantic seaboard: the threat of hurricanes, and the…
So, you have given me a lot of information to make it even harder to think about cutting.
You've done an outstanding job in leveraging nonappropriated funds over the last several years.
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