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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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Jun 25, 2018

I want to report to the Senate on attending the detention center in my home State of Florida. I stood on the floor last week and reported that a lot had changed. I just returned again from South Florida, where I was finally allowed to go…

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Jun 25, 2018

How many of those children have been able to be in contact by telephone with their parents from whom they were separated?

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Jun 24, 2018

the number of children held in Florida had actually increased to 179.

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Jun 20, 2018

I was necessarily absent for the June 19, 2018, vote on Senate amendment 2914 to Senate amendment 2910 to H.R. 5895, Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2019. I would…

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Jun 20, 2018

I have just returned from South Florida where I went to a detention facility in Homestead, FL. There are 1,000 children in this detention facility, and 94 of 1,000 are children who have been separated from their families. Despite being the…

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Jun 19, 2018

For years, I have urged the CPSC to adopt a mandatory safety standard for portable generators to stop these senseless deaths.

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Jun 19, 2018

the FCC majority ignored the critical role that unfettered access to a free and open Internet plays in everyday Americans' lives.

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Jun 19, 2018

the current FCC majority has spent the past year and a half abandoning the agency's statutory authority and responsibilities.

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Jun 19, 2018

this FCC seems determined to fulfill a special interest wish list rather than protecting those least able to protect themselves.

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Jun 19, 2018

The current FCC majority has spent the past year and a half abandoning the agency's statutory authority and responsibilities.

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Jun 19, 2018

the FCC is also determined to undercut and do permanent damage to the great American tradition of local broadcasting preserved through its media ownership rules.

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Jun 19, 2018

they eliminated net neutrality rules, they went overboard, and they gave up FCC authority to protect consumers online.

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