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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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Mar 17, 2010

Do you have to have all the $6 billion to develop it?

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Mar 17, 2010

safety is, and always will be, NASA's first core value

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Mar 17, 2010

Because the word, in the President's budget, was used, 'cancellation,' instead of the word 'restructuring' of Constellation, it has caused a good bit of angst.

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Mar 16, 2010

But that is not the way it is, and that is not the way it was designed in the prescription drug law of 2003.

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Mar 16, 2010

Two thirty-nine, ninety-nine to 65.

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Mar 16, 2010

The Federal Government should take a larger and more proactive role in these complex and highly technical investigations because it has the expertise to lend a hand with detailed and sophisticated analysis.

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Mar 16, 2010

As a former prosecutor I know that the first responsibility of government is to protect our citizens.

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Mar 16, 2010

Late last year, the AARP released a report that showed that while the Nation was in a recession... brand-name drugs were seeing some of their highest price increases in years.

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Mar 16, 2010

I thought in Economics 101, the free marketplace, competition, supply and demand, I thought we learned that the more that you bought in bulk, huge purchases, the more negotiating power that you had.

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Mar 16, 2010

Had my amendment, and this is an academic discussion because it didn't pass. Had it passed, dual eligibles would get the same rebate when they got their drugs in Medicare that they were eligible to get those same prices under Medicaid.

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Mar 16, 2010

Do you think the price of those drugs... are going to go up?

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Mar 16, 2010

Our children are our most precious assets. We say it over and over again; we want to do everything we can to protect them.

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