WEST CENTRAL IRAQ - U.S. Marines have unearthed a remote desert grave in this war-torn country and found the remains of long-missing Navy pilot Capt. Michael Scott Speicher of Florida. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson helped in efforts to continue the search over much of the past decade.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With Orlando, Fla. and a few other U.S. locales apparently on a so-called blacklist of sites for government meetings and conferences, one U.S. senator now says he’s going after any agency that deliberately discourages travel to Florida.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Forty years ago, the first humans to visit another sphere bounced around on the magnificent desolation of the moon. On this 40th anniversary, we should not only remember this towering achievement, but also recall why we went there in the first place, says U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
Nelson: Stop the oil flippers!
From The palm beach post - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is backing President Barack Obama’s efforts to stop oil “speculators” from driving up gas prices but doesn’t want him to stop there.
Federal regulators are considering curbing the sales of energy futures by investors and are trying to shed light on swapping of contracts outside by hedge fund managers and traders.
The administration should go further and return the law to pre-Enron era that left a “loophole,” Nelson wrote to in a letter to Obama today.
“We shouldn’t be allowing profiteers to flip oil contracts like condominiums,” he wrote.
Nelson’s filed a bill to close the loophole and require that all energy futures be traded on regulated exchanges like the New York Mercantile Exchange.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - With an estimated 100,000-or-more pythons roaming the Everglades, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson asked the nation’s federal lands czar to allow deputized agents and volunteers into the national park this winter to kill as many of the menacing snakes as possible.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has received the first test results on Chinese-made drywall found in an unknown number of Florida homes. The results show the defective drywall contains three materials not found in drywall made in the U.S., including sulfur. The Environmental Protection Agency says more testing is needed to see whether the drywall is causing health problems and the corrosion of metal fixtures inside homes. FULL STORY »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Cyber-invaders thought to be somewhere in China have recently hacked into the computer network in U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson’s office. Senate security is investigating.
Batista and Levinson missing abroad, senator aids families
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Lourdes Batista, above, and Christine Levinson, right, both had their husbands go missing in foreign lands. While the circumstances of their spouses' disappearances are different, they are both getting help from U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
