Madam President, 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…
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.
My question is, the 70 children who I was told were in that facility, who had been separated from their parents, what has happened to them?
On Saturday, I was not allowed in the detention facility in Homestead, FL to speak with the 70 children whom I was told were there who had been separated from their parents.
How many of those children have been able to be in contact by telephone with their parents from whom they were separated?
Madam President, 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…
Mr. President, 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…
they eliminated net neutrality rules, they went overboard, and they gave up FCC authority to protect consumers online.
The current FCC majority has spent the past year and a half abandoning the agency's statutory authority and responsibilities.





