WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson has asked an inspector general investigate whether drug makers are jacking up the prices on widely used brand-name prescriptions and taking windfall profits in advance of possible health care reforms.
President Obama is joined by Sen. Bill Nelson at a recent stop in Jacksonville, where Nelson urged him to station a nuclear carrier. Later in South Florida, the president announced billions in grants Nelson sought to modernize the state’s power grid.
Following the publication of a new report on the future of NASA, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson says President Obama has assured him the space program will gets what it needs.
Florida's U.S. senators urge state lawmakers to embrace high-speed rail
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U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, center, meets in his Washington, D.C. office for talks on high-speed rail with ( left to right ) Sen.
George LeMieux, Florida Senate President Jeff Atwater and state Sens. Al Lawson and J.D. Alexander.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson is taking Florida property insurance companies to task amid reports that at least two of the state’s top insurers are dropping Florida homeowners over claims their houses were built with tainted Chinese drywall.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - While federal authorities investigate the harmful effects of imported Chinese drywall on homeowners around the country, four U.S. senators want the emergency management agency to help displaced homeowners with rental and other emergency assistance like that provided people after a major storm or natural disaster. In a letter to new FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, they asked for an immediate review to determine whether the disaster agency can provide financial help to folks with drywall claims not covered by their insurance.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The only serving U.S. senator to have flown in space today called on President Obama to use $3 billion of unspent stimulus money to help prevent the continued shrinking of America’s space program. Florida Democrat Bill Nelson delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor – coming just days before a special commission reviewing NASA and the nation’s space program is expected to deliver its final report to Obama.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The debate over Medicare Advantage misses a key point. It's not so much the extras, such as gym memberships, vision and dental care, that drew more than 10 million seniors to the plans. It's the affordable deductibles, co-pays and other such out-of-pocket expenses.
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. FULL STORY »
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. FULL STORY »
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.
