Bill Nelson

Despite all efforts and despite these tools, this country continues to lose as much as $60 to $90 billion a year to Medicare fraud.

I think we can be supportive of the new tools that it gave to CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to use in the fight against fraud.

I thank the Senator from Louisiana, who has been the sparkplug behind this bill. As a result of her hard work, there are a lot of people in Florida who will be saved unconscionable increases. Again, my thanks to the Senator from Louisiana.

We try to make it work even better by taking the politics out of the selection.

This is a process that works. And it is a process that sets us, the United States, apart from so many other judiciaries around the world.

Our agreement with the White House is that the President will select from among the three that the two of us send to him.

General Dunford, can you provide recommendations for addressing these concerns in future contracts?

General Dunford, in its recent report to Congress, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction cited an abuse of the system from an unidentified contractor who billed for 'multiple classes at one site that could have been…

Regardless of U.S. presence in 2015, the ALP is critical to the professionalization of the ANSF.

The ALP is fundamental to the professionalization of the ANSF.

With the strategic partnership between the United States and Afghanistan reinforced with a BSA, I am confident the bulk of our residual force would return home by the end of 2016.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:54 a.m., adjourned until Tuesday, March 11, 2014, at 9…

At 11:30 a.m. there will be a series of four cloture votes on the Leitman, Levy, Michelson, and Parker nominations, all to be district judges for the Eastern District of Michigan. ____________________

I want the 31 colleagues who have been on the floor to know how proud I am. As I have watched throughout the evening and this morning, I have seen our colleagues continue to hold this floor to try to bring attention to climate change. I am…

How can you deploy those forces in a way that you're meeting these expanding threats?

The absence of one will make things significantly more difficult to conduct the counterterrorism operations that SOCOM and CENTCOM work in conjunction with the interagency.

When we pull out of Afghanistan, do you feel confident that you can keep enough SOF in the area so that if, for example, something happened that we had to go back in, that we can do it on a quick turnaround and get back in?

I rise today on the anniversary of Bob Levinson's disappearance from Kish Island off the coast of Iran. March 9 will mark 7 excruciating years of waiting and wondering for Bob's family who have desperately sought assistance from the…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty so it makes it an opportune time to discuss and consider both the gains that we have made and the challenges that remain.

I hope you will extend, on behalf of the committee, our gratitude to the men and women of the Air Force and their families for the many sacrifices that they have made on our behalf.

Over the past 13 years, Air Force personnel and equipment have played a key role in support of our national security goals in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere around the world.

We are grateful to each of you for your service to the Nation and for the truly professional service of the men and women under your command.

I don't want to lose that capability.

Did the Florida Guard argue that there are other States that have a much larger Guard that do not have the threats and therefore there ought to be a reallocation among the States as to the actual threats?

This is just an immediate step, but full sequestration takes us back to even worse cuts, and it will have an impact on our response times.