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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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Sep 26, 2017

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…

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Sep 26, 2017

The devastation that we have seen to infrastructure in these natural events that have occurred is one of the reasons that Senator Rubio and I have authored the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act.

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Sep 26, 2017

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

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Sep 26, 2017

the deaths of 11 people just in Florida from carbon monoxide poisoning as a result of generators.

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Sep 26, 2017

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.

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Sep 25, 2017

We wish to express our support for the confirmation of Ann Marie Buerkle, who currently serves as Acting Chairman.

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Sep 24, 2017

The bill guts the Medicaid program and, therefore, cuts hundreds of billions of dollars of support to pregnant women, low-income adults, and children over time.

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Sep 24, 2017

Public health emergencies are going to continue. And that exemption does not do anything for the greater Medicaid needs after a natural disaster like these hurricanes.

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Sep 24, 2017

The bill would put quality care for seniors at significant risk.

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Sep 24, 2017

Relaxing the per-capita cap by $5 billion in total for 50 States over a 5-year period just simply is not adequate.

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Sep 24, 2017

The Graham-Cassidy bill caps Medicaid, effectively cutting billions from the program.

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Sep 19, 2017

I think a national advisory commission on seniors and disasters is important and would identify 'best practices' across the country.

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