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Bill Nelson is the Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, elected to his second term in 2006. He previously served 12 years in the U.S. House (1979-1991), during which he flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986 -- the flight before the Challenger accident. Nelson, a moderate Democrat and ardent NASA supporter, lost his 1990 bid for Florida governor but rebounded in 1994 to become the state insurance commissioner. Nelson was born in Miami on Sept. 29, 1942 and is married with two grown children.
Bill Nelson is the Democratic U.S. Senator from Florida, elected to his second term in 2006. He previously served 12 years in the U.S. House (1979-1991), during which he flew aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 1986 -- the flight before the Challenger accident. Nelson, a moderate Democrat and ardent NASA supporter, lost his 1990 bid for Florida governor but rebounded in 1994 to become the state insurance commissioner. Nelson was born in Miami on Sept. 29, 1942 and is married with two grown children.
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Social Security Administration to resume mailing paper benefit statements
Social Security Administration will resume paper statements of estimated benefits to certain workers age 60 and up beginning next month, according to a letter from the agency’s commissioner released this morning by two senators. In the letter dated...Tags: Democratic Party, Herb Kohl, Employees, U.S. Senate, Social Security
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Terror futures market canceled
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - A Pentagon proposal to start a "futures" market that would have let thousands of investors wager on the likelihood of terrorist attacks or coups in the Middle East was canceled yesterday. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told...Tags: Ron Wyden, Terrorism, Finance, Yasser Arafat, Vice (movie)
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NASA 'checks and balances' faulted
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON - The head of the independent board investigating the Columbia disaster said yesterday that NASA has not given enough clout to engineering and safety units within the agency meant to ensure the reliability of the shuttle fleet. Harold W....Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Disasters, Technology, Nick Anderson
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Latest images shock officials
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Images of U.S. soldiers forcing Iraqi prisoners to perform sex acts and to injure themselves as part of their abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison shocked members of Congress, who spent a grim afternoon yesterday viewing hundreds of new photos...Tags: Murder, Baghdad (Iraq), Tom DeLay, Television Industry, Abusive Behavior
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For explorers, 'a dream fulfilled'
Sun StaffHOUSTON - In a somber ceremony yesterday, President Bush told the families and colleagues of the seven astronauts lost aboard the space shuttle Columbia that the crew had perished in a great cause that the nation would continue to pursue. Speaking to...Tags: Laura Bush, Finance, Mary L Landrieu, Petroleum Industry, Defense
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Congress' probe to go beyond catastrophe
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - As investigators sort through the wreckage of the space shuttle Columbia, Congress is preparing a major re-evaluation of the space program's budget, its mission and its future course. Key lawmakers are seeking a detailed account of what...Tags: Sam Brownback, Rocketry, Budgets and Budgeting, Dana Rohrabacher, Kay Bailey Hutchison
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Video details start of shuttle's breakup
Special To The SunHOUSTON - Investigators of the Columbia disaster showed a nearly complete video yesterday of the space shuttle's flight from the California coastline to its breakup over east Texas, a mosaic assembled from about 15 clips shot by amateur astronomers...Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Astronomy, Death, Science
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South Florida counties stop non-citizen voter purge
The federal Department of Justice ordered a halt to Florida's systematic purge of suspected non-citizens from voter rolls, saying the effort breaks two federal laws. And concerns about the accuracy of the state's list of suspected non-citizens led all...
Tags: Local Elections, Broward County, Regional Authority, Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Corrine Brown
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Late entry Weldon plays catch-up in Senate primary
Bonnie Lesando was hoping a Republican candidate like former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon would get into the U.S. Senate race. She doesn't like front-runner Connie Mack IV nor former Sen. George LeMieux, and retired Army Col. Mike McCalister is stuck in...Tags: Mike Haridopolos, Facebook, Quinnipiac University, Ron Paul, Media Industry
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Feds want Florida to stop purge of voter rolls
MCT Regional NewsCounty elections supervisors raised red flags, and then federal authorities weighed in Thursday to demand the state of Florida halt its ongoing push to remove thousands of voters from the rolls. The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter contending...Tags: Boca Raton, U.S. Department of Justice, Local Elections, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Mack presses regulatory reform in talk to Orlando business leaders
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelU.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV, R-Fort Myers, focused on economic issues, particularly regulatory reform, in his address to an off-shoot group of the former Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce Thursday. The invitation-only luncheon and the U.S. Senate... -
Congressmen urge Gov. Scott to stop voter purge now
Using an American war veteran as the face of their cause, two South Florida congressmen called on the governor Tuesday to immediately stop the state's purge of the voter rolls. And in a separate move, Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson sent a letter...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Broward County, Local Elections, Al Gore, Regional Authority
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