May 26, 2010
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Department of Interior Ig Reports
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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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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
To the Senator from New Jersey. 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…
May 25, 2010
If the Senator would yield for a further question. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.
May 25, 2010
Madam President, 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…
May 25, 2010
One final question, Madam President, if I may---- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Florida.
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.
May 20, 2010
Mr. President, British Petroleum has just announced that it has conceded that the amount of oil gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico is much more than what they admitted several weeks ago. You will recall that they first said it…
May 20, 2010
I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Gulf Oilspill
May 20, 2010
Certainly. And I thank the Senator from California, the chairman of the Environment Committee, for her leadership in getting the truth out.
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