Bill Nelson

What makes Social Security great is that virtually every worker pays into it, but a worker has to hope that his employer offers a retirement plan.

For 6 years, I got to see what insurance companies will do. I can tell you.

One would naturally ask the question, could we solve this problem in the United States the way the Dutch have solved a lot of the coastal areas of the Netherlands by building dikes? A lot of their land is actually below sea level. You…

I thank my dear personal friend the Senator from Rhode Island for his kind comments, but I especially thank him for his passion and his leadership on this issue. There are parts of America where it is time to wake up, and especially one…

If our Governor and legislature in the State of Florida expanded Medicaid under the ACA, it would cover an additional 1.2 million people...

Ground zero for Medicare fraud is South Florida. Just yesterday there was another bust.

Shortly we are going to have votes on a number of judges, and I want to call to the attention of the Senate Federal district judge Robin Rosenbaum. She has been nominated by the President to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh…

The Panama Canal is expanding and may be able to accept the larger ships by 2016.

Despite the fact that there was $2.4 billion on the table for Florida, it would have paid for 90 percent of the cost.

In the last 50 years, five to eight inches in Florida.

You never can quite predict what Mr. Putin is going to do.

In the GROW AMERICA Act, the Administration proposed establishing a National High Performance Rail System, especially for Intercity Passenger Rail.

Yesterday, the Administration published the Third National Climate Assessment and it confirmed what a lot of us suspected: climate change is, indeed, real.

Thank you very much.

The fight against cancer is a fight for our lives.

I rise to recognize an important meeting taking place this week at the Scripps Research Institute in my home State of Florida that coincides with Older Americans Month. Leaders in the field of aging and medical research are gathering at…

Mr. Putin continues to be very aggressive, and whether it is uniformed personnel on the border of Ukraine...

I think it is very interesting that the Commonwealth of Virginia got very visionary and decided they were going to start shifting.

We are here to spotlight the worst practices in an industry that has run amuck and largely remains in the shadows.

I hope that we can continue to keep this discussion going so that we can come to some reasonable conclusions of what we need to continue to do before it is too late.

We have been facing budget cuts at NASA, which means that we may not be able to continue to get some of these satellites.

And so the temperature of the Earth rises.

I think you have summed it up right there.

But you wouldn't say that over the last couple of decades, would you? Would not the fact of sea level rise be some part of the calculation of what the insurance premium was going to be?

Are mitigation efforts like improving energy efficiency and reducing our reliance on fossil fuels, is that worthwhile?