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      <created-at type="timestamp">Fri Nov 06 22:27:07 -0600 2009</created-at>
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      <excerpt>...for the women and a pie-eating contest for all ages. Admission is free. Food is available. Call (352) 754-6722. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson will host a veterans forum from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Monday at Brooksville City Hall, 201 Howell Ave. Local veterans are i</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...drywall should give homeowners more of the information they are looking for on health effects and remediation. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Orlando, who is the keynote speaker for the conference at 1:30 p.m. should also have more to say about federal effort</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...ultimate responsibility for the houses built with Chinese drywall that corrodes copper piping and other metals, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Friday. The corrosion, caused by chemicals found in the drywall, can destroy air conditioning systems, bathroom fi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...nose bleeds and respiratory problems reported by roughly 1,900 households in 30 states. &#160;Homeowners in South Florida and U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, have criticized the testing, saying officials aren't delivering meaningful information f</excerpt>
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      <title>Health regulators puzzled by tainted drywall tests</title>
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      <excerpt>...``Many homeowners are stuck with contaminated drywall in their homes and they need all the help they can get,'' said Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, who has been pushing the Consumer Product Safety Commission since February to investigate imported drywall. ``</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...reform ideas put forward in Congress that would have addressed this problem. Most notably, Rep. Joseph Crowley (D., N.Y) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D., Fla.) have proposed training an additional 4,000 new physicians to add to the 25,000 entering the professi</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...healthcare-reform bill with a voluntary government-run insurance plan. Speakers implored people to pressure U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson to keep supporting the measure. &quot;We want to thank him for his support so far, but we want to keep the pressure on him,&quot; sai</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...loses elections.  His part in the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton may well have cost him a Senate race against Bill Nelson.  If you put McCollum and Dockery on Alan Grayson's &quot;knuckle-dragging Republican'' evolutionary chart, she would be mu</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...a month. The threat of pythons is real and growing and should be of major concern to responsible Floridians. Support Sen. Bill Nelson's bill, S-373, in the Senate and House bill 2811 to ban the import of pythons. This is the first step on a long path to</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...appointed for life, so Klobuchar says it's essential to recommend someone proven to be fair-minded. She says Nelson fits the bill. Nelson would replace U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum, who went on senior status in October. Rosenbaum still plans to c</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Ben Nelson,&#160;...  Bill Nelson: I Prefer Trigger To Opt-Out Compromise  tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com 25 days ago &#8212; Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) said on MSNBC a few moments ago that he prefers a &quot;trigger&quot; option on health care reform -- of the sort favo</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Those of us from Florida paid a housecall on our Senator Bill Nelson. He was &amp;quot;in an all day meeting&amp;quot; according to his poor little aide, who quickly got an earfull from the bunch of us. Don&amp;#39;t mess with Mom&#8230;we went up there and spanked ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sen. Bill Nelson checks in tainted drywall. U.S. Bill Nelson in April visted the home of Kristin Culliton in Lakewood Ranch to learn more about the tainted drywall problem. File Photo RICHARD DYMOND/rdymond@bradenton.com ...</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>From RedState: Dear Senator Cornyn, It is my understanding that the NRSC has endorsed Charlie Crist as its choice for the Republican candidate for Senator. ... If you click on Florida, a page with comes up with George LeMieux and Bill  Nelson with Charlie </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Credit: NASA. Depending on whether the Obama administration decides to continue the Ares I program, this decision may be moot. Earlier this week Sen. Bill Nelson said Obama may make a decision on NASA&amp;#39;s future path, based on the report ...</excerpt>
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