Mr. President, to accommodate the Senator from Utah, I will not make my remarks first, but just by way of introduction to say that tonight at midnight American national security is going to be irreversibly weakened by the actions of…
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.
Mr. President, I was necessarily absent for the July 30, 2018, vote on Executive Calendar No. 1006, the motion to invoke cloture, on Britt Grant, of Georgia, to be U.S. circuit judge for the Eleventh Circuit. I would have voted no…
Mr. President, the Senator is basing that on First Amendment rights. There are many limits on our First Amendment rights of speech. You cannot say ``fire'' in a crowded theater. Why in the world would you assert First Amendment rights to…
Each day, around the world, billions of dollars in digital commerce is conducted online.
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Plastic Guns
Mr. President, if we didn't have enough to worry about, as the Presiding Officer and this Senator have to worry about cyber security in our capacity on the Armed Services Committee; if we didn't have enough to worry about, with all that is…
I second the comments of the Chairman about the Gulf Coast train service that was suspended after Hurricane Katrina.
If this settlement is allowed to go through, we will see a fundamental shift in American safety and security.
Let me be blunt about this: Somebody could come into this building--and sit in this hearing room--and have a gun, and we wouldn't know about it.
Congress has already made an important 'down payment' with the MOBILE NOW Act, bipartisan legislation championed by Chairman Thune and Ranking Member Nelson.





