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.
Madam President, I want to talk about a matter of life and death. It is happening, as we speak, in Puerto Rico. I went there yesterday. I didn't want to have a flyover of the island, but at the invitation of Governor Rossello, I got into a…
Mr. President, the aftermath of Las Vegas is a time for this Senator to reflect on whether a shooting is like Mateen's, in the Orlando nightclub, where he was motivated as a terrorist, and then there was the remarkable recovery of…
Mr. President, I am the Senator from Florida, along with my colleague Marco Rubio. We, of course, have been at the forefront of this terrible tragedy that is going on in Puerto Rico, and I want to comment on that. By the way, speaking of…
Madam President, I want to speak on the renomination of Ajit Pai to serve as Chairman of the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission, to serve for a term of 5 years. Under the previous administration, the FCC always had the consumers'…
Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Hurricane Recovery Efforts
Mr. President, I want to express my appreciation to the fellow Senators who have come up innumerable times to express their regrets for what has happened to Florida, as we did with our colleagues from Texas with regard to the hurricane in…
So, a voluntary standard would mean that the manufacturers, which is what they want, as indicated by your letter to the EPA, they want a voluntary standard, which means that the manufacturers would not do it because it is voluntary.
I hope the industry trade association will be able to finalize a standard quickly making it unnecessary for your agency to regulate.
So how many more deaths from generators in the aftermath of hurricanes are we going to have to see before the Consumer Product Safety Commission looking out for consumer safety finally gets around to saying, 'Enough'?
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…





