A public works bill passed by the US Senate on Wednesday gives Georgia a hand up in the ongoing water-rights dispute with Florida. Florida Senators Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio each tried unsuccessfully to amend the Water...

You just have to read the back-and-forth between Senator Bill Nelson and Times reporter Alex Leary as Leary attempts to get a straight answer out of Nelson about whether the 70 year-old will run for Governor of...

Sen. Nelson wrote a letter to Gov. Scott today urging him to call a special session to remedy the Legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid.   The text of the letter is below. Dear Gov. Scott: In Florida –...

San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will be headlining the Florida Democratic Party’s 2013 Jefferson Jackson Gala on June 15th, and will be joined by Senator Bill Nelson and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz.   Castro is the son...

As Panhandle officials were worrying that the state Legislature was moving toward taking control of their share of potentially millions of dollars in BP fines, Senator Bill Nelson today reminded Florida’s governor and state lawmakers that federal...

While regulators and the oil industry have made some changes to boost the safety of offshore drilling since the nation’s worst oil spill three years ago, federal lawmakers have yet to adopt a key bill needed to...

“… but what if Charlie Crist doesn’t want to be governor?” That’s the question I ask every other member of the Society of the Tarpon Belt — the loose confederation of former Crist staffers and supporters serving...

Not long after US Senator Bill Nelson’s meeting in Lakeland with local airport officials from across the state, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would delay plans to immediately close control towers at 14 small airports statewide. ...

Senator Bill Nelson has endorsed gay marriage, the latest in a string of lawmakers to change his position on the issue.  “If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn’t those be attainable by...

US Senator Bill Nelson said today that an older airship fitted with high-tech equipment gives the Navy a cost-effective means of tracking submarines, drug smugglers and other “bad guys.”  The lawmaker’s comments came at the conclusion of...