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Finally, justice for soldier's widow
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Mrs. Margaret Snow of Leesburg, Florida, right, widow of World War II veteran Samuel Snow receives a check from U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson for the back pay with interest Mr. Snow lost 64 years ago when he was wrongly convicted of a crime he didn't commit, imprisoned and tossed out of the service.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a letter to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson asked that any share-buying plan developed by the administration include terms and conditions to adequately protect taxpayers.
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Sen. Nelson, left, recently met with a Florida National Guard unit deploying to Iraq while he was visiting Camp Blanding, near Starke.
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New law gives Internet phone users 9-1-1
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, second from right, joins President Bush, seated, for the signing of legislation Nelson co-authored requiring Internet-based telephone companies provide customers with 9-1-1 emergency service.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has filed legislation to ban unregulated speculative trading of oil futures and other energy commodities as a way to curb the unchecked run-up in crude oil and gasoline prices that took off after Congress deregulated electronic trading of energy futures in late 2000.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - A key U.S. Senate committee has responded to public outcry over the lack of prosecution in more than two dozen alleged rapes of female contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Senate Armed Services Committee approved language in a broad defense operations and spending plan that would require contractors in war zones to report such crimes and provide assistance for victims of sexual assault. |
Nelson listens as a witness tells of being assaulted in Iraq. |
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