Bill Nelson

to accommodate the majority leader, I ask unanimous consent--I understand that he will object, and I will explain it afterward, but it involves what you see here in the aftermath of the hurricane, all of this citrus fruit on the ground…

in my explanation, I will go into it in detail. It is my hope that the White House promise that this will be taken up in November, which is the next tranche of the hurricane money, the disaster assistance. It has been well past a month…

I wish you would consider a subpoena to get the main witness.

You mess around with our election apparatus, and it is an attack on our country.

Did you realize that you handed out a chart that is 5 years old? The date on this chart is January of 2013.

before Medicare, one-half of senior citizens in this country did not have any healthcare, health insurance. Medicare changed that. So why in the world would we want to cut $473 billion from Medicare? It does not make sense. My amendment…

Vladimir Putin cannot beat us on the land, in the air, on the sea, under the sea, or in space, but he can beat us in cyber.

I want to talk about a matter of life and death. It is happening, as we speak, in Puerto Rico. I went there yesterday. I didn't want to have a flyover of the island, but at the invitation of Governor Rossello, I got into a helicopter so…

I am the Senator from Florida, along with my colleague Marco Rubio. We, of course, have been at the forefront of this terrible tragedy that is going on in Puerto Rico, and I want to comment on that. By the way, speaking of bipartisanship…

the aftermath of Las Vegas is a time for this Senator to reflect on whether a shooting is like Mateen's, in the Orlando nightclub, where he was motivated as a terrorist, and then there was the remarkable recovery of Congressman Scalise in…

I want to speak on the renomination of Ajit Pai to serve as Chairman of the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, to serve for a term of 5 years. Under the previous administration, the FCC always had the consumers' back. Back then…

I hope the industry trade association will be able to finalize a standard quickly making it unnecessary for your agency to regulate.

It is going to take getting the military into Puerto Rico in big numbers.

Let us be consistent. In fact, we know in the measurements over decades of time, not on any one storm, that the global temperatures are rising.

How many more deaths in the aftermath of this hurricane are we going to have to see before we finally get the regulatory process of the U.S. Government off its posterior and start doing something about protecting the safety, in fact, of…

Mr. Chairman, I want to enter into the record something that would help us, a statement from 'The Washington Post,' a piece on shrinking the National Weather Service staff, and how that is inimical to our interest with regard to predicting…

Morale is at an all-time low and these dedicated public servants are exhausted. The president's hiring freeze only further compounded the vacancies.

I am fully committed to doing everything that I can to aid my fellow Floridians and all others who have lost life and property in these storms.

The manufacturers believe that the shutoff approach will actually be more effective.

I was heartened when the CPSC voted four to one last year to publish a draft standard to significantly reduce the amount of deadly carbon monoxide these machines emit.

Oceans are warming and then that warm water is the fuel for these dizzying, extraordinary storms.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Hurricane Recovery Efforts

So how many more deaths from generators in the aftermath of hurricanes are we going to have to see before the Consumer Product Safety Commission looking out for consumer safety finally gets around to saying, 'Enough'?

I look forward to hearing from you about the work you did in overseeing the safety of transporting those hazardous materials within CSX.

The devastation to Florida's infrastructure after hurricanes is one of the reasons I authored the original legislation creating the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act.