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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.
It is my hope we can pass this substitute amendment without further opposition as we are continuing to see. I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida. Mr. LeMIEUX. Madam President, it has been my privilege to work…
Madam President, before the Senator from Louisiana leaves the floor, I just want to say that this issue is very simply characterized as Main Street versus Wall Street. It is a question of whether we are serious about reviving this economy…
Including the Florida Bankers Association, including the Community Bankers Association--because they know what it is. They got dissed on the big TARP--which some of us voted against-- even when we tried to carve out little portions for…
Would the Senator also agree that when you look at the list of all the institutions that support this lending facility, they are some of what we would think of as the most conservative organizations, and they are very much in favor of this?
I would like the Senator from Louisiana to underscore the fact that the $30 billion put into this lending program, which will inure to the benefit of small business, is going to end up multiplying like the fishes and the loaves; it will…
I ask the question to underscore what the Senator from Louisiana has just said, which is that small business, which is the mainstay of the economic engine in so many of our States-- certainly, that is true with Florida, as a matter of…
Mr. President, I wish to compliment a lot of Senators on both sides of the aisle for the extraordinary bipartisanship--no, the extraordinary nonpartisanship that occurred in coming together unanimously to pass the NASA authorization bill…
Mr. President, what is our parliamentary position? The PRESIDING OFFICER. We are in a period postcloture.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. NASA Authorization
On page 23 of your testimony, you consider counterintelligence to be under-resourced.
Mr. President, I would like to speak about fishing, a very important special pastime and industry for the Nation. Fishing in Florida is a way of life for many. The small bait and tackle shops, the hotels, the restaurants, the charter boat…
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