Senate Proceeding 03-10-09 on Mar 10th, 2009 :: 0:40:10 to 0:44:35
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Bill Nelson: after study i yield the floor. mr. nelson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: i want to thank senator martinez again i think tha it's important that we understand that when we have that full and fair and open

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Speech By: Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson: debate in the sunshine that we remember what candidate obama said during t he said what he wanted to do was go back to the status quo ante on travel to cuba by family members every year instead of once every three years and to

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Bill Nelson: have more remittances every quarter than was cut back a few years ago by the previous administration. now, that seems to me to be common sense and family val oriented, and that's what the candidate articulated that became our next president of the united states.

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Bill Nelson: and then once the new president announces his declaration of that policy, we can come out here and openly debate that while there's been disagreement within this body over the most effective way for to us help the

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Bill Nelson: there is to be a new strategy towards cuba, the opportunity for the commander in chief to layt ou few lawmakers

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Bill Nelson: in a must-pass appropriations bill without any opportunity for debate. families, many of them in florida, who have ties to loved ones still on the island and that's why i support president obama's efforts to

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Bill Nelson: allow increased family travel once a year instead of every three years and the increased remittanceso family members. our job in guiding u.s. foreign policy towards cuba is to isolate the castro regime but not to prevent families from

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Bill Nelson: being able to take ce of their loved ones. and on the bis of these letters that have been entered in the record today, personal assurance by the secretary of the treasury we appreciate very much, i have been assured by the

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Bill Nelson: administration as to the implications and enforcement of these regulations. and although i agree with many of the colleagues that this omnibus bill is far from perfect perfect, i believe it's in the best interest of our country to provide the operational funding for the

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Bill Nelson: united states government and for so many other important initiatives. now, this bill includes funding for lifesaving equipment at florida hospitals, for sheriff's offices, and for police departments to upgrade communications systems or to prevent kids from joining street

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Bill Nelson: gangs. it provides money for cleaning up blithed downtown neighborhoods -- for blited downtown neighborhoods, to retrain workers who are losing their jobs and for projects to save one of the world's greatest natural treasures, the florida everglades.

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Bill Nelson: and these are just a few of the reasons why this legislation is so important. if this bill sh bill, shepherded through body by the esteemed chairman of

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Bill Nelson: the committee, senator inouye, nasa will have to lay off skilled aerospace workers that are developing the replacement of the space shuttle. and so it is my vote for cloture on the 2009